Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754583Ab0GOGcu (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:32:50 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:35002 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753277Ab0GOGcs convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:32:48 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=vg8maLZeaAXKVqSVL0vmDNpDPNftHsjzDrBhz25WwipTJFNyiMZhHDFiV3kVQbhUd+ wR72SjPuePlNPviHkHfLKPvbAAsetuMRjIFLO8SxHAvLe0cKKaroyUkRHP4cFt5dTgsD 4MNV3mL9YRC8iIYlL58f35bVSPkaC6SMFXe7Y= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100715053543.GA4416@suse.de> References: <20100709185450.GA29473@kroah.com> <20100714163852.b3c09930.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100715041400.GA2583@suse.de> <20100715053543.GA4416@suse.de> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:32:46 +1000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED From: Dave Airlie To: Greg KH Cc: Andrew Morton , Jens Axboe , Randy Dunlap , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Peter Zijlstra , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Takashi Iwai , Greg KH , Kay Sievers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Howells , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Alan Stern , "Eric W. Biederman" , Ingo Molnar , Tejun Heo , Alexey Kuznetsov , Stephen Hemminger , "David S. Miller" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1753 Lines: 43 On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 03:00:31PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:24:18AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Andrew Morton >> >> wrote: >> >> > On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:54:50 -0700 >> >> > Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> >> > >> >> >> This is no longer needed by any userspace tools, so it's safe to >> >> >> remove. >> >> >> >> Also still used for booting mainline kernels on RHEL5 userspaces. >> > >> > Really? ?I thought that was fixed a long time ago. ?What kernel was >> > RHEL5 originally based on? >> > >> > And note that no RHEL5 user is going to be using a .36 kernel on their >> > system, that's a completely unsupported and unadvised situation. ?Heck, >> > I'd be amazed if a .34 kernel.org kernel boots on the thing, does it? >> > >> >> I think some people do it internally, last time I did it was to test >> something I was backporting, so you want to make sure the upstream >> version boots and the backported version also boots on the same >> hw/userspace. >> >> original kernel was 2.6.18. > > Yes, that was the number, but does it really look anything like a .18 > kernel.org release? ?:) > Well its more that the userspace is mostly what was released at the same time, we aren't going to update udev/mkinitrd unless some major problem was discovered. Dave. -- 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/