From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:37:24 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 150 release Message-Id: <20100107193723.GA22882@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <1262883808.2430.1.camel@yio.site> In-Reply-To: <1262883808.2430.1.camel@yio.site> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 12:32:03PM -0600, Robby Workman wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 10:12:09 -0800 > Greg KH wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 07:07:29PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 18:33, Greg KH 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. > > > Back in Slackware 12.0, we shipped 2.6.21.5 with: > # CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set > # CONFIG_PM_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set > and udev-111. Maybe that's helpful :-) It is, thanks. So I'm guessing the release before this needed that setting? If so, is it still being supported, and when was it released? thanks, greg k-h