From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932930Ab0EMUIF (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2010 16:08:05 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:60550 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757284Ab0EMUHW (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2010 16:07:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 13:07:18 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Piotr Hosowicz Cc: LKML Subject: Re: General questiin about SYSFS Message-ID: <20100513200718.GA18479@kroah.com> References: <4BEC4B0D.8010102@example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BEC4B0D.8010102@example.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 08:55:09PM +0200, Piotr Hosowicz wrote: > Hello, > > I have a simple question = I've heard rumours here and there that > SYSFS is deprecated and forthcoming kernels won't use it Nope, not true at all. Where did you hear those rumors so that I can go after them with a big stick and squash them? > I even see some warning during boot. What specific warning are you seeing? > Is it true? And where to disable it in the config? If you want to disable sysfs, you can, it's in the config file, but you have to really know what you are doing otherwise you will usually end up with a system that does not boot properly. best of luck, greg k-h