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Date:	Fri, 14 May 2010 04:12:28 +0200
From:	Piotr Hosowicz <piotr@...owicz.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: General questiin about SYSFS

On 13.05.2010 22:07, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 08:55:09PM +0200, Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a simple question = I've heard rumours here and there that
>> SYSFS is deprecated and forthcoming kernels won't use it
>
> Nope, not true at all.  Where did you hear those rumors so that I can go
> after them with a big stick and squash them?

Sorry, these must have been some random rumours in my head which came to 
being during wild Debian upgrades sessions I had.

>> I even see some warning during boot.
>
> What specific warning are you seeing?

See my parallel email. I didn't understand them, this - as it appeared - 
is udev question.

>> Is it true? And where to disable it in the config?
>
> If you want to disable sysfs, you can, it's in the config file, but you
> have to really know what you are doing otherwise you will usually end up
> with a system that does not boot properly.

Now I see, thanks for the reply.

Regards,

Piotr Hosowicz

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