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

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Message-Id: <20100715013619.ba473d39.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:36:19 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...e.de>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:31:15 +0200 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 05:52, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 04:38:52PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> >> and the box still won't boot.
> >
> > Ick, that sucks.
> >
> > What kernel was FC6 based on originally?
> >
> > Kay, I thought that Fedora had fixed the "can't find root" issue for
> > this type of sysfs configuation a long time ago. __Or was that something
> > else for PPC that I am thinking of?
> 
> It was fixed, and it's weird bug in nash.
> 
> If Andrew is still doing the same thing as years ago, he does not
> update the initramfs image, he boots with the old original initramfs
> along with the new kernel. :)

I run

	VERS=$(make kernelrelease 2>/dev/null)
	<copy vmlinux>
	/sbin/new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd --install 

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