linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] spi: docs: adjust summary to CONFIG_SYSFS

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Message-ID: <ZBAqXXGnqJmySgkM@kroah.com>
Date:   Tue, 14 Mar 2023 09:03:41 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Cc:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: docs: adjust summary to CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED
 removal

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 08:56:09AM +0100, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> With commit 721da5cee9d4 ("driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED and
> CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2"), ./scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py indicated
> an unresolved reference to the config SYSFS_DEPRECATED in the SPI summary
> documentation.
> 
> Simply, delete the sentence referring to the removed config there. Also
> update the documentation, as these sys/class entries should always be
> symlinks, as the commit message of the commit above suggests.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
> ---
> Mark, Greg, Jens, please confirm that these sys/class entries now always
> are symlinks. That is simply my guess after reading a bit on sysfs_deprecated
> also changed compared to the normal setup, but I am not the expert here.

They have been symlinks for years, the only subsystem that the
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED logic still modified was for the block
subsystem.  So your change looks good to me, thanks for doing this:

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>