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Message-Id: <1204672732-3127-1-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de>
Date:	Tue,  4 Mar 2008 15:18:45 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 1/8] driver core: fix up Kconfig text for CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED

As things get moved into this config option, the hard date of 2006 does
not work anymore, so update the text to be more descriptive.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
---
 init/Kconfig |    7 ++++---
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index f698a5a..e6606e6 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -382,10 +382,11 @@ config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
 
 	  If enabled, this option will also move any device structures
 	  that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in
-	  order to support older versions of udev.
+	  order to support older versions of udev and some userspace
+	  programs.
 
-	  If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or later,
-	  it should be safe to say N here.
+	  If you are using a distro with the most recent userspace
+	  packages, it should be safe to say N here.
 
 config CGROUP_MEM_CONT
 	bool "Memory controller for cgroups"
-- 
1.5.4.3

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