Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 150 release

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 07:07:29PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 18:33, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> >> udev 150
> >> ====
> >> Bugfixes.
> >>
> >> Kernels with SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y are not supported since a while. Many users
> >> depend on the current sysfs layout and the information not available in the
> >> deprecated layout. All remaining support for the deprecated sysfs layout is
> >> removed now.
> >
> > Nice, we should start to work on removing this option in the kernel now
> > as well.
> 
> Yeah, that would be awesome, and make the "subsystem patch", which
> cleans up the last weirdness in sysfs, the artificial split between
> classes and buses, really really simple. :)

I would like that.

Anyone remember what udev version that is needed if we remove that
kernel option?  I'll try to dig through the different distros to see if
it is yet safe to remove.

And the subsystem merge would be good to have as well, I see the crap
that various android drivers are doing with sysfs and want to keep that
from propagating into the mainline kernel.  The subsystem stuff should
stop most of that.

thanks,

greg k-h