From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
axboe@kernel.dk, tiwai@suse.de,
James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SYSFS: Allow boot time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layout
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 16:02:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100908160235.61ae1200@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100908135530.GA2978@kroah.com>
On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 06:55:30 -0700
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> But, Kay and I just changed the logic in the kernel in this area,
> getting rid of the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option entirely, to try
> to make the code path smaller, only offering the "old" mode for block
> devices, to keep kernels booting on userspace instances like what you
> have.
That will likely break my user space, it relies on the old style
net set up (opensuse 10.0) for network configuration.
That was the main reason I did this patch.
>
> So, could you respin this patch against the linux-next tree which has
> Kay's patch in it? Or, if it's easier, I've attached the patch below.
I can test your patch first, but to be honest I doubt it'll work on the
10.0 roots.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-08 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-08 13:19 [PATCH] SYSFS: Allow boot time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layout Andi Kleen
2010-09-08 13:55 ` Greg KH
2010-09-08 14:02 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-09-08 14:11 ` [PATCH] SYSFS: Allow boot time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layout II Andi Kleen
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