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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: Recent wireless breakage (ipw2200, iwconfig, NetworkManager)
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 17:17:09 -0800
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On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 05:08:49PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 19:56:25 -0500
> Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> > So the question really is are we really done making changes to sysfs,
> > or maybe what we should do is talk about major version numbers to
> > sysfs.
> 
> Perhaps using a config option wasn't the right way to do this - a kernel
> boot parameter might be better.

Ok, I have no problem with that if people really want it.  But give me
the option to also make it a config option so I don't have to change our
bootloaders too.

Does that sound acceptable?

thanks,

greg k-h