linux-kernel - Re: sysfs regression: wrong link counts

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Message-ID: <m14nvc82jo.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
Date:	Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:44:11 -0800
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	systemd-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: sysfs regression: wrong link counts

Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz> writes:

> Oh, we are not going to break userspace with 3.3, are we? 

No.  This code is currently scheduled for 3.4.

> I understand
> that what sensors do is nothing but sh*t. But this change should wait
> until everybody has a chance to have fixed sensors package in their
> distribution.
>
> To be clear, what I'm suggesting is to postpone the change and schedule
> it for something like 3.7.

The sensors update with the fix is scheduled for about a week out, well
before 3.3 ships.

The code in next for 3.4 is perhaps 4-6 months out from a kernel
release.  That seems like plenty of time for distros to get an update
package for sensors together.

Eric
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