Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 150 release

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 01:56:25PM -0600, Robby Workman wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 11:37:24 -0800
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 12:32:03PM -0600, Robby Workman wrote:
> > > On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 10:12:09 -0800
> > > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 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?
> > 
> 
> Our previous release, 11.0, shipped with 2.4.something as the
> stock kernel, but we did ship 2.6.18 as an optional kernel in
> /testing.  That one is definitely too old, as it doesn't even
> have SYSFS_DEPRECATED in the config:
> 
>   $ grep SYSFS config-generic-2.6.18 
>   CONFIG_VIDEO_PVRUSB2_SYSFS=y
>   CONFIG_RTC_INTF_SYSFS=m
>   CONFIG_SYSFS=y
> 
> This should narrow down the search to 2.6.19 or 2.6.20 though.
> 
> For what it's worth, 12.0 was shipped on 20070630, and 11.0 went 
> out on 20061001.

Thanks a lot of this information, it is most helpful.

greg k-h