linux-kernel - Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS

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Message-ID: <20100715041400.GA2583@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:14:00 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...e.de>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] driver core: remove
	CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:24:18AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:54:50 -0700
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> >
> >> This is no longer needed by any userspace tools, so it's safe to
> >> remove.
> 
> Also still used for booting mainline kernels on RHEL5 userspaces.

Really?  I thought that was fixed a long time ago.  What kernel was
RHEL5 originally based on?

And note that no RHEL5 user is going to be using a .36 kernel on their
system, that's a completely unsupported and unadvised situation.  Heck,
I'd be amazed if a .34 kernel.org kernel boots on the thing, does it?

> Live with your mistakes guys, don't try and bury them.

I'm not, I honestly thought that we had resolved these issues.

So, which version of Centos matches up with RHEL5 so I can go download
it and see if I can resolve this?  We might just be able to reduce the
ammount of code we remove here and keep the Kconfig option around, if
that old userspace is expecting a portion of the symlinks to still be
present.

thanks,

greg k-h
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