From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755229Ab0ENCMk (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2010 22:12:40 -0400 Received: from 29.mail-out.ovh.net ([87.98.216.213]:42385 "HELO 29.mail-out.ovh.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751250Ab0ENCMe (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2010 22:12:34 -0400 Message-ID: <4BECB18C.5050005@example.com> Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 04:12:28 +0200 From: Piotr Hosowicz Reply-To: piotr@hosowicz.com Organization: hosowicz.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100411 Icedove/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: LKML Subject: Re: General questiin about SYSFS References: <4BEC4B0D.8010102@example.com> <20100513200718.GA18479@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20100513200718.GA18479@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Ovh-Tracer-Id: 12794163593349394920 X-Ovh-Remote: 83.24.77.38 (dmv38.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl) X-Ovh-Local: 213.186.33.20 (ns0.ovh.net) X-Spam-Check: DONE|U 0.5/N Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 13.05.2010 22:07, Greg KH wrote: > 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? Sorry, these must have been some random rumours in my head which came to being during wild Debian upgrades sessions I had. >> I even see some warning during boot. > > What specific warning are you seeing? See my parallel email. I didn't understand them, this - as it appeared - is udev question. >> 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. Now I see, thanks for the reply. Regards, Piotr Hosowicz -- Janusz Korwin-Mikke: "Idiota z dyplomem to taki sam idiota, jak przedtem - tylko z pretensjami." NP: Patrick O'Hearn - Night Becomes Her NB: 2.6.34-rc7-git4