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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q. DEBUG_FS and SYSFS config (Re: [RFC Aufs2 #3 2/2] split 'xino' entry under sysfs)
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:20:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090324232049.GC21479@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac3eb2510903240857l2b072ffay7c3e2e5683527a4f@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:57:16PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 16:33, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> 
> >> First, configure "normaly".
> >> General setup
> >>   [ ] Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)  --->
> >>
> >> $ egrep -i '(sysfs|debug_fs)' .config
> >> CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y
> >> CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=y
> >
> > You should disable those two options, no modern distro needs them
> > anymore.
> 
> In fact, all recent distros will no longer work correctly, because
> DEPRECATED disables features which are expected to be there today. I
> guess it's time to remove the *_V2 hack to reset the default value,
> and set the default of CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n?

Sounds like a good idea for 2.6.31.  Care to send a patch so we can keep
it in -next for a few months?

thanks,

greg k-h

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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q. DEBUG_FS and SYSFS config (Re: [RFC Aufs2 #3 2/2] split 'xino' entry under sysfs)
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:20:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090324232049.GC21479@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac3eb2510903240857l2b072ffay7c3e2e5683527a4f@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:57:16PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 16:33, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> 
> >> First, configure "normaly".
> >> General setup
> >>   [ ] Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)  --->
> >>
> >> $ egrep -i '(sysfs|debug_fs)' .config
> >> CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y
> >> CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=y
> >
> > You should disable those two options, no modern distro needs them
> > anymore.
> 
> In fact, all recent distros will no longer work correctly, because
> DEPRECATED disables features which are expected to be there today. I
> guess it's time to remove the *_V2 hack to reset the default value,
> and set the default of CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n?

Sounds like a good idea for 2.6.31.  Care to send a patch so we can keep
it in -next for a few months?

thanks,

greg k-h
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-24 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-19  5:12 [RFC Aufs2 #3 0/2] 'debug' module parm and /sys/fs/aufs entries J. R. Okajima
2009-03-19  5:12 ` [RFC Aufs2 #3 1/2] replace /sys/fs/aufs/debug by /sys/module/aufs/parmaters/debug J. R. Okajima
2009-03-19  5:12 ` [RFC Aufs2 #3 2/2] split 'xino' entry under sysfs J. R. Okajima
2009-03-20  0:45   ` Greg KH
2009-03-20  2:25     ` hooanon05
2009-03-20  2:42       ` Greg KH
2009-03-20  2:55         ` hooanon05
2009-03-20  3:06           ` Greg KH
2009-03-20  3:59             ` hooanon05
2009-03-20  4:18               ` Greg KH
2009-03-20  5:15                 ` hooanon05
2009-03-20  5:44                   ` Greg KH
2009-03-24  8:16                     ` Q. DEBUG_FS and SYSFS config (Re: [RFC Aufs2 #3 2/2] split 'xino' entry under sysfs) hooanon05
2009-03-24 15:33                       ` Greg KH
2009-03-24 15:57                         ` Kay Sievers
2009-03-24 15:57                           ` Kay Sievers
2009-03-24 23:20                           ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-03-24 23:20                             ` Greg KH

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