Re: kernel config question

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 11:13 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> David Woodhouse (dwmw2 infradead org) said: 
> > Because a _deprecated_ feature in the kernel is busted, you mean?
> 
> Yes. Kernel oopses -> kernel broken. 

And CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n --> kernel no longer oopsing. It's
probably still buggy, but at least the bug is hidden.

> > The answer would be 'maybe'. I can't say; I don't know what needs it.
> 
> The installer.
> 
> > > It's known what needs it, it's unlikely to be fixed before F7.
> > 
> > Bug numbers or more details? The workaround of which I speak is
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227893#c9
> 
> It's 'port the installer to use hal & udev', there's not a bug
> number, probably because it's generally understood that it's not
> happening right now.

OK, so since the above workaround only removes some environment
variables which were being passed to the hotplug/udev script, it
shouldn't matter that they're now missing, because the installer wasn't
using them anyway?

It's not a very nice fix, and we still have a kernel bug. But at least
it's a possibility.

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