From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751661AbXCDQ2S (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Mar 2007 11:28:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751784AbXCDQ2S (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Mar 2007 11:28:18 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:37283 "EHLO perch.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751661AbXCDQ2R (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Mar 2007 11:28:17 -0500 Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 08:27:09 -0800 From: Greg KH To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] KCONFIG: Set the default for the deprecated sysfs entries to N. Message-ID: <20070304162709.GB24613@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:08:04AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > Set the default for creating deprecated sysfs files to "no". > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day > > --- > > Given that the help info for this entry states that "None of these > features or values should be used today," it makes more sense for the > config entry to default to no, wouldn't you think? No, it turns out that there were just too many people using older userspaces, so the default of Y is correct for now. It's also safer that way as otherwise people build kernels that don't boot. So sorry, I'm not going to apply this change. thanks, greg k-h