linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25-rc regression: kernel panic on boot

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Message-ID: <20080305153726.GA28806@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 5 Mar 2008 07:37:26 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...ru>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "Zhang, Rui" <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kay.sievers@...y.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc regression: kernel panic on boot

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 01:16:17PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 02:54:47PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y changed its meaning recently and causes
> > regressions in working setups that had SYSFS_DEPRECATED disabled.
> > 
> > so rename it to SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 so that testers pick up the new
> > default via 'make oldconfig', even if their old .config's disabled
> > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED ...
> 
> It has all the same help text, so people who disabled it in the past
> will disable again!

I did change the help text.  If you think the new wording is not
sufficient, please send me a patch against 2.6.25-rc4.

thanks,

greg k-h
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