Return-path: Received: from ns1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:47485 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932213AbXCES7D (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 13:59:03 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:58:13 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Theodore Tso , Matt Mackall , Johannes Berg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, yi.zhu@intel.com, jketreno@linux.intel.com, linux-wireless , akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: Recent wireless breakage (ipw2200, iwconfig, NetworkManager) Message-ID: <20070305185813.GA31465@kroah.com> References: <20070304220857.GH23311@waste.org> <1173051564.6131.13.camel@johannes.berg> <20070305002550.GI23311@waste.org> <20070305011729.GB7681@kroah.com> <20070305125950.GC26781@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20070305125950.GC26781@thunk.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:59:50AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:17:29PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > I should not have broken any userspace if CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is > > enabled with that patch. If that is enabled, and that patch still > > causes problems, please let me know. > > But we still need to update the help text for CONFIG_SYS_DEPRECATED to > make it clear that its deprecation schedule still needs to be 2009 to > 2011 (depending on whether we want to accomodate Debian's glacial > release schedule). Certainly the 2006 date which is currently there > simply isn't accurate. Ok, how about the following patch. Is it acceptable to everyone? thanks, greg k-h --- init/Kconfig | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- gregkh-2.6.orig/init/Kconfig +++ gregkh-2.6/init/Kconfig @@ -290,8 +290,17 @@ config SYSFS_DEPRECATED that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class heirachy, in order to support older versions of udev. - If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or later, - it should be safe to say N here. + If you are using an OpenSuSE, Gentoo, Ubuntu, or Fedora + release from 2007 or later, it should be safe to say N here. + + If you are using Debian or other distros that are slow to + update HAL, please say Y here. + + If you have any problems with devices not being found properly + from userspace programs, and this option is disabled, say Y + here. + + If you are unsure about this at all, say Y. config RELAY bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"