linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

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Date:	Thu, 7 Jun 2007 09:06:32 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 08:59:53 -0700 Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:52:00AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 08:43:42 -0700 Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > >  Fixed in mkinitrd-6.0.9-6 , which I'll build now and push to 
> > > >  updates-testing.  Thanks for getting my attention here.
> > > 
> > > Great, Andrew, can you please reenable the block-device patch that is in
> > > my tree now that the problem has been solved?
> > 
> > I think we're screwed, aren't we?  Everyone needs to upgrade mkinitrd to be
> > able to boot the kernel?  Not viable :(
> > 
> > For example, what about my two-year-old yellowdog machine?
> 
> Enable CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED and it should all work just fine.  That's
> what Michal said worked for him.
> 

Actually, it _was_ enabled.

Ho hum, I'll have a poke at it this evening.

So...  what's the story here?  Should our position be that
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n should only be used by distro kernel-builders,
who are concurrently shipping userspace which can handle it?  And that
these distros should (probably) set CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y in their
update kernels for older distributions?
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