Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 16:09:55 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
       Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 05:00:41PM -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
>  Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 02:48:05PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> >> Greg KH (gregkh@suse.de) said: 
> >>> There are a number of distros out there right now who can support that
> >>> option disabled.  I'm pretty sure they are the following right now:
> >>> 	Gentoo unstable (actually stable works now for me, but I'm not
> >>> 			 going to guarantee it just yet...)
> >>> 	Debian unstable (again stable might work, but I have not heard
> >>> 			 any reports from testers.)
> >>> 	openSUSE FACTORY (the 10.3 alpha releases)
> >>>
> >>> and now it sounds like Red Hat rawhide will also work properly.
> >> I suspect while it will work for mkinitrd, the installer will not
> >> work properly.
> > Ah, but the installer doesn't matter until you do a Fedora 8 release,
> > right?  This is just for people who want to run their own kernel on an
> > already-set-up Fedora machine.
> 
>  Eh, not so sure that's true.  It's really kudzu rather than the installer 
>  itself, and that's used by, for example, system-config-network.

Ok, then for Fedora 7 users, we should just recommend to keep
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED enabled if you are using the -mm tree now, or
after 2.6.23 is out (which is the earliest I expect this block patch to
show up in mainline.)

thanks,

greg k-h
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