Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

[Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>]

Hello Linus,

On Mon, 14 May 2007 09:30:19 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2007, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > 
> > This is a side effect of an i2c-core cleanup. This is already fixed in
> > lm_sensors 2.10.3 (libsensors.so.3.1.3).
> 
> So apparently that fixed it, but in general we do not allow these kinds of 
> "need to have new xyz with new kernel".

Sure, we don't allow that. Except for xfsprogs in 2.6.1, procps in
2.6.4, oprofile in 2.6.13 and udev in 2.6.19, of course.

> Kernels are supposed to be backwards compatible. Jean, what was it that 
> changed, and why can't we just make them appear the same?
> 
> It may be that something like a sensors package isn't important enough to 
> worry about (the machine still *works*, and everything else won't notice), 
> but if it's a simple matter of adding some random file to /sysfs, we 
> should just do it.

We already have CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED for that.

-- 
Jean Delvare