linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/8] driver core: fix up Kconfig text for CONFIG_SYSFS

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Message-ID: <5602.1204752271@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:24:31 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] driver core: fix up Kconfig text for CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED

On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:05:55 PST, Greg KH said:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:58:13AM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> > On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:18:45 PST, Greg Kroah-Hartman said:
> > 
> > > -	  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.
> > 
> > Might want to be a bit more specific here - I *think* udev, lvm, and nash
> > were the common ones that broke this time around.
> 
> udev did not break, and nash is a shell, so it would have a hard time
> "breaking" :)

The problem with nash was that it has some builtins for creating
entries in /dev (basically, a subset of udev).

And you're right, this time was nash, the others were the *last* time
we busticated /sys. ;)

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