kernel config question
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon Mar 19 15:28:44 UTC 2007
David Woodhouse (dwmw2 at infradead.org) said:
> > 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?
!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.
Bill
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