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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:22:28 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large file
	without options
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 05:28:57PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 07:19:27PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > Would you accept a patch which causes the deprecated sysfs
> > files/directories to disappear, even if CONFIG_SYS_DEPRECATED is
> > defined, via a boot-time parameter?
> 
> How about a mount option?  That way people can test without a reboot:
> 
> mount -o remount,deprecated={yes,no} /sys

Unfortunatly, due to the way sysfs and kobjects are built up, this is
pretty impossible to do.

sorry,

greg k-h