Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

Greg KH
2007-06-07T23:11:59Z

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 05:00:41PM -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 02:48:05PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> >> Greg KH (gregkh@suse.de) said:
> >>> There are a number of distros out there right now who can support that
> >>> option disabled. I'm pretty sure they are the following right now:
> >>> Gentoo unstable (actually stable works now for me, but I'm not
> >>> going to guarantee it just yet...)
> >>> Debian unstable (again stable might work, but I have not heard
> >>> any reports from testers.)
> >>> openSUSE FACTORY (the 10.3 alpha releases)
> >>>
> >>> and now it sounds like Red Hat rawhide will also work properly.
> >> I suspect while it will work for mkinitrd, the installer will not
> >> work properly.
> > Ah, but the installer doesn't matter until you do a Fedora 8 release,
> > right? This is just for people who want to run their own kernel on an
> > already-set-up Fedora machine.
>
> Eh, not so sure that's true. It's really kudzu rather than the installer
> itself, and that's used by, for example, system-config-network.

Ok, then for Fedora 7 users, we should just recommend to keep
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED enabled if you are using the -mm tree now, or
after 2.6.23 is out (which is the earliest I expect this block patch to
show up in mainline.)

thanks,

greg k-h