From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754803Ab0IHOLq (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2010 10:11:46 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:36154 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754671Ab0IHOLo (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2010 10:11:44 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 16:11:41 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Andi Kleen Cc: Greg KH , Kay Sievers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , axboe@kernel.dk, tiwai@suse.de, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] SYSFS: Allow boot time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layout II Message-ID: <20100908161141.194e6785@basil.nowhere.org> In-Reply-To: <20100908160235.61ae1200@basil.nowhere.org> References: <1283951991-16202-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <20100908135530.GA2978@kroah.com> <20100908160235.61ae1200@basil.nowhere.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 16:02:35 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote: > On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 06:55:30 -0700 > Greg KH wrote: > > > But, Kay and I just changed the logic in the kernel in this area, > > getting rid of the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option entirely, to > > try to make the code path smaller, only offering the "old" mode for > > block devices, to keep kernels booting on userspace instances like > > what you have. > > That will likely break my user space, it relies on the old style > net set up (opensuse 10.0) for network configuration. > That was the main reason I did this patch. ... Just tested it. Never mind, it looks the old style network configuration seems to work still with this patch and my earlier pessimistic assumptions were incorrect. Don't see any misfunction so it looks like the new patch is ok. I'll respin my patch on top of this. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.