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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] driver core: fix up Kconfig text for CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:24:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5602.1204752271@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:05:55 PST." <20080305160555.GA31159@suse.de>

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On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:05:55 PST, Greg KH said:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:58:13AM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:18:45 PST, Greg Kroah-Hartman said:
> > 
> > > -	  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 a distro with the most recent userspace
> > > +	  packages, it should be safe to say N here.
> > 
> > Might want to be a bit more specific here - I *think* udev, lvm, and nash
> > were the common ones that broke this time around.
> 
> udev did not break, and nash is a shell, so it would have a hard time
> "breaking" :)

The problem with nash was that it has some builtins for creating
entries in /dev (basically, a subset of udev).

And you're right, this time was nash, the others were the *last* time
we busticated /sys. ;)

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-05 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-04 23:15 [GIT PATCH] driver core fixes against 2.6.25-rc3 git Greg KH
2008-03-04 23:18 ` [PATCH 1/8] driver core: fix up Kconfig text for CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED Greg Kroah-Hartman
2008-03-05 15:58   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-03-05 16:05     ` Greg KH
2008-03-05 21:24       ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2008-03-04 23:18 ` [PATCH 2/8] sysfs: CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED fix Greg Kroah-Hartman
2008-03-04 23:18 ` [PATCH 3/8] kobject: properly initialize ksets Greg Kroah-Hartman
2008-03-04 23:18 ` [PATCH 4/8] PM: Do not acquire device semaphores upfront during suspend Greg Kroah-Hartman
2008-03-04 23:18 ` [PATCH 5/8] PM: fix new mutex-locking bug in the PM core Greg Kroah-Hartman
2008-03-04 23:18 ` [PATCH 6/8] driver core: Remove dpm_sysfs_remove() from error path of device_add() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2008-03-04 23:18 ` [PATCH 7/8] Driver core: Fix cleanup when failing device_add() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2008-03-04 23:18 ` [PATCH 8/8] debugfs: fix sparse warnings Greg Kroah-Hartman

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