linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1

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Date:	Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:16:04 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc3-mm1

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:54:30 -0800
Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:50:00PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:00:02PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> >  > - For some reason Greg has resurrected the patches which detect whether
> >  >   you're using old versions of udev and if so, punish you for it.
> >  > 
> >  >   If weird stuff happens, try upgrading udev.
> > 
> > Where "old" is how old exactly ?
> 
> As per the Kconfig help entry, any version of udev released before 2006
> will probably have problems with the new config option.  So follow the
> text and enable the option if you are running an old version of udev and
> you should be fine.

<hunts>

Greg is referring to CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED.  I didn't know it existed. 
If I had known I'd have saved maybe an hour and I perhaps wouldn't have had
to revert gregkh-driver-tty-device.patch

What mailing list was this discussed and reviewed on?

The option should default to "y".

The changelog is wrong.  Or garbled.  Certainly confusing.

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