Re: [PATCH] SYSFS: Allow boot time switching between deprecated andmodern sysfs layout v2

From: Kay Sievers
Date: Wed Sep 08 2010 - 11:27:58 EST


On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 16:54, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I have some systems which need legacy sysfs due to old udev versions,
> and it's a big hazzle to compile separate kernels for them.

It's not udev, it's other tools making wrong assumptions like that
directories can not be a symlink to a directory, or that a device is
always the same parent device. It's also not udev which fails on newer
installations, it's the lack of information in the non-extensible
deprecated layout which makes all sorts of tools fail. So please
work-off the text from the old help text instead of blaming the wrong
things here. :)

Kay
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