Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757871AbXENSXk (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 14:23:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756422AbXENSXd (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 14:23:33 -0400 Received: from smtp-101-monday.nerim.net ([62.4.16.101]:1480 "EHLO kraid.nerim.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756134AbXENSXc (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 14:23:32 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 20:24:19 +0200 From: Jean Delvare To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Antonino Ingargiola , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1 Message-ID: <20070514202419.33a90f57@hyperion.delvare> In-Reply-To: References: <5486cca80705131010h2011487dnc948a3c57ce6decc@mail.gmail.com> <5486cca80705131150u313eeb43i30bf040e160ac419@mail.gmail.com> <20070514081022.7fcee97f@hyperion.delvare> <5486cca80705140134r318296b8k37ad6f4562b4b535@mail.gmail.com> <20070514141437.631fcfd1@hyperion.delvare> <5486cca80705140628w5ff43ebdqf6a5413203226d5@mail.gmail.com> <20070514172138.1c870793@hyperion.delvare> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.5 (GTK+ 2.10.6; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1194 Lines: 31 Hello Linus, On Mon, 14 May 2007 09:30:19 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2007, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > > This is a side effect of an i2c-core cleanup. This is already fixed in > > lm_sensors 2.10.3 (libsensors.so.3.1.3). > > So apparently that fixed it, but in general we do not allow these kinds of > "need to have new xyz with new kernel". Sure, we don't allow that. Except for xfsprogs in 2.6.1, procps in 2.6.4, oprofile in 2.6.13 and udev in 2.6.19, of course. > Kernels are supposed to be backwards compatible. Jean, what was it that > changed, and why can't we just make them appear the same? > > It may be that something like a sensors package isn't important enough to > worry about (the machine still *works*, and everything else won't notice), > but if it's a simple matter of adding some random file to /sysfs, we > should just do it. We already have CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED for that. -- Jean Delvare - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/