Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 07:37:26 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, "Zhang, Rui" <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kay.sievers@vrfy.org,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc regression: kernel panic on boot
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On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 01:16:17PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 02:54:47PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y changed its meaning recently and causes
> > regressions in working setups that had SYSFS_DEPRECATED disabled.
> > 
> > so rename it to SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 so that testers pick up the new
> > default via 'make oldconfig', even if their old .config's disabled
> > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED ...
> 
> It has all the same help text, so people who disabled it in the past
> will disable again!

I did change the help text.  If you think the new wording is not
sufficient, please send me a patch against 2.6.25-rc4.

thanks,

greg k-h
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