Re: [PATCH] driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 04:38:52PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:54:50 -0700
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > This is no longer needed by any userspace tools, so it's safe to
> > remove.
> 
> Makes my FC6 test box not boot - can't find /dev/root.  Then when I go
> back to plain old mainline (2.6.35-rc5) and run `make oldconfig', the
> .config change sticks:
> 
> @@ -106,8 +106,7 @@
>  CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=17
>  CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK=y
>  # CONFIG_CGROUPS is not set
> -CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y
> -CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=y
> +# CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 is not set
>  CONFIG_RELAY=y
>  CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
>  # CONFIG_UTS_NS is not set
> 
> and the box still won't boot.

Ick, that sucks.

What kernel was FC6 based on originally?

Kay, I thought that Fedora had fixed the "can't find root" issue for
this type of sysfs configuation a long time ago.  Or was that something
else for PPC that I am thinking of?

thanks,

greg k-h