Re: kernel config question

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

David Woodhouse (dwmw2 infradead org) said: 
> > !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?

No, but that's not the reason we have DEPRECATED on.

Bill