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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED
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On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 04:38:52PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:54:50 -0700
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > This is no longer needed by any userspace tools, so it's safe to
> > remove.
> 
> Makes my FC6 test box not boot - can't find /dev/root.  Then when I go
> back to plain old mainline (2.6.35-rc5) and run `make oldconfig', the
> .config change sticks:
> 
> @@ -106,8 +106,7 @@
>  CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=17
>  CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK=y
>  # CONFIG_CGROUPS is not set
> -CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y
> -CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=y
> +# CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 is not set
>  CONFIG_RELAY=y
>  CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
>  # CONFIG_UTS_NS is not set
> 
> and the box still won't boot.

Ok, for now, I've removed this patch from my tree, so you should not
have any problem.

I'll go work on this later next week when I have some more time.

thanks,

greg k-h