From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754126Ab2AaMli (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:41:38 -0500 Received: from out03.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.233]:33482 "EHLO out03.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752081Ab2AaMlh (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:41:37 -0500 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Jiri Slaby Cc: Greg KH , Alan Cox , LKML , systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Linus Torvalds , Al Viro Subject: Re: sysfs regression: wrong link counts References: <4F27120A.4040106@suse.cz> <20120130220611.GA26655@kroah.com> <20120130221059.26ab5edf@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> <20120130222717.GA6393@kroah.com> <4F27C6EB.2070305@suse.cz> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:44:11 -0800 In-Reply-To: <4F27C6EB.2070305@suse.cz> (Jiri Slaby's message of "Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:48:11 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=in01.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=98.207.153.68;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX1/0KIQBZOEWMuTKVquZK1MWJ4aXgY7JP3E= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 98.207.153.68 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on in01.mta.xmission.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jiri Slaby writes: > Oh, we are not going to break userspace with 3.3, are we? No. This code is currently scheduled for 3.4. > I understand > that what sensors do is nothing but sh*t. But this change should wait > until everybody has a chance to have fixed sensors package in their > distribution. > > To be clear, what I'm suggesting is to postpone the change and schedule > it for something like 3.7. The sensors update with the fix is scheduled for about a week out, well before 3.3 ships. The code in next for 3.4 is perhaps 4-6 months out from a kernel release. That seems like plenty of time for distros to get an update package for sensors together. Eric