Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.25-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24 | | Date | Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:35:30 +0100 |
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On Monday, 18 of February 2008, Jiri Slaby wrote: > On 02/18/2008 10:49 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Why on earth do we have CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED at all if the only > >> sane choice for someone who tests new kernels is to always turn it on? > > > > seconded ... > > > > it's insane how inconvenient certain storage systems are to use, and > > people get turned away with NOATBUG. ITISABUG every time user-space > > breaks or the user has to do _anything_ to get the box working as it > > should. > > No, user needn't to do anything. Just turn that default y option really to y > (yes, you are right, the help text of this option is misleading...). It's like > you turn off old acpi events option and scream that you acpi daemon doesn't work > for instance. There are many instances of this behaviour in the kernel. And yes, > many people don't need that option tuyrned on -- I think we need not-y testers > too, but it might be my personal feeling.
Well, my definition of a regression from 2.6.24 is that it happens when someone takes a .config that worked with 2.6.24, configures the kernel with that, leaving the defaults for the options he is _asked_ _for_, and the resulting kernel doesn't work as expected.
Thanks, Rafael
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