From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754513AbZLCQcZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:32:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751784AbZLCQcY (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:32:24 -0500 Received: from acsinet11.oracle.com ([141.146.126.233]:36672 "EHLO acsinet11.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751429AbZLCQcX convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:32:23 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:31:43 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap To: Uwe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= Cc: LKML , Greg KH , kay.sievers@vrfy.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: fix SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 prompt Message-Id: <20091203083143.3a4619a4.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20091203080341.GA9675@pengutronix.de> References: <4B0B214A.5020006@oracle.com> <20091203080341.GA9675@pengutronix.de> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.12.0; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Source-IP: acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090201.4B17E7FC.0092:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:03:41 +0100 Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > > config SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 > > - bool "remove sysfs features which may confuse old userspace tools" > > + bool "enable deprecated sysfs features which may confuse old userspace tools" > Is this better? SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 enables deprecated sysfs features, > but this is done to *not* confuse old userspace tools, isn't it? Hm, agreed that it is still a bit ambiguous. Feel free to send (another) patch. thanks, --- ~Randy