Re: kernel config question

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 11:28 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> !CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED changes the sysfs layout significantly. (Hey,
> when they say the kernel doesn't have a fixed ABI, they aren't kidding.)
> 
> This breaks the hardware detection logic used by the installer in about
> five or six different places.

But changes to environment variables in the hotplug script invocations
shouldn't hurt, right?

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