Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Mar 2007 17:38:22 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Recent wireless breakage (ipw2200, iwconfig, NetworkManager) |
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On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 17:17:09 -0800 Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 05:08:49PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 19:56:25 -0500 > > Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: > > > > > So the question really is are we really done making changes to sysfs, > > > or maybe what we should do is talk about major version numbers to > > > sysfs. > > > > Perhaps using a config option wasn't the right way to do this - a kernel > > boot parameter might be better. > > Ok, I have no problem with that if people really want it. But give me > the option to also make it a config option so I don't have to change our > bootloaders too.
Sometimes we provide a config option which provides the default version of the boot option. So:
CONFIG_SYSFS_VERSION=1.2
and
if (user_provided_sysfs_version == NULL) user_provided_sysfs_version = CONFIG_SYSFS_VERSION;
> Does that sound acceptable?
If we make CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED just a boolean boot option then that fixes this problem (we hope) but won't help us next time we want to change something.
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