From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756351AbZCXXvh (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:51:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754993AbZCXXvG (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:51:06 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:38375 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754516AbZCXXvD (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:51:03 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:20:49 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Kay Sievers 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) Message-ID: <20090324232049.GC21479@kroah.com> References: <20090320024249.GA19989@kroah.com> <4443.1237517709@jrobl> <20090320030608.GA2638@kroah.com> <5142.1237521581@jrobl> <20090320041811.GA3352@kroah.com> <6218.1237526149@jrobl> <20090320054437.GC3993@kroah.com> <2778.1237882600@jrobl> <20090324153329.GA13705@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:57:16PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 16:33, Greg KH 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 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH 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 Message-ID: <20090324232049.GC21479@kroah.com> References: <20090320024249.GA19989@kroah.com> <4443.1237517709@jrobl> <20090320030608.GA2638@kroah.com> <5142.1237521581@jrobl> <20090320041811.GA3352@kroah.com> <6218.1237526149@jrobl> <20090320054437.GC3993@kroah.com> <2778.1237882600@jrobl> <20090324153329.GA13705@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Kay Sievers Return-path: Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:38375 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754516AbZCXXvD (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:51:03 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:57:16PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 16:33, Greg KH wrote: >=20 > >> First, configure "normaly". > >> General setup > >> =A0 [ ] Configure standard kernel features (for small systems) =A0= ---> > >> > >> $ egrep -i '(sysfs|debug_fs)' .config > >> CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=3Dy > >> CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=3Dy > > > > You should disable those two options, no modern distro needs them > > anymore. >=20 > 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=3Dn? Sounds like a good idea for 2.6.31. Care to send a patch so we can kee= p it in -next for a few months? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html