Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933686AbYCDUGw (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:06:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762417AbYCDUGl (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:06:41 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:40782 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758683AbYCDUGk (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:06:40 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:04:50 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Greg KH cc: Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , "Zhang, Rui" , linux-kernel , kay.sievers@vrfy.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Alexey Dobriyan , dm-devel@redhat.com Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc regression: kernel panic on boot In-Reply-To: <20080304193348.GC5534@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <1204500349.10256.171.camel@acpi-hp-zz.sh.intel.com> <20080303224259.GA27008@suse.de> <20080304135447.GD32383@elte.hu> <20080304104312.457ba3a8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080304193348.GC5534@suse.de> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1555 Lines: 47 On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Greg KH wrote: > > I have a patch queued up to change the wording of this config entry to > not say 2006, as that's not true anymore, and it should hopefully fix > some of the confusion here. Well, I think some of the confusion is simply from people who already turned it off *before* (without problems), and now just do "make oldconfig" or otherwise just keep it off, and it causes problems for them. Updating the help text won't do squat, because those people won't be reading it - maybe they read it back when it was a new option (and it worked for them), but not any more. So I would almost suggest we simply force the option back on for now. Then, in 2.6.26, we can make it a question again, and by that time, people will have it as 'y' in their config files and will now have the option to turn it off again. In other words, how about just this diff? Linus --- init/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index f698a5a..a36e2e2 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ config RESOURCE_COUNTERS depends on CGROUPS config SYSFS_DEPRECATED - bool "Create deprecated sysfs files" + bool "Create deprecated sysfs files" if EMBEDDED depends on SYSFS default y help -- 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/