Hello Linus, On Mon, 14 May 2007 09:30:19 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2007, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > > This is a side effect of an i2c-core cleanup. This is already fixed in > > lm_sensors 2.10.3 (libsensors.so.3.1.3). > > So apparently that fixed it, but in general we do not allow these kinds of > "need to have new xyz with new kernel".
Sure, we don't allow that. Except for xfsprogs in 2.6.1, procps in 2.6.4, oprofile in 2.6.13 and udev in 2.6.19, of course. > Kernels are supposed to be backwards compatible. Jean, what was it that > changed, and why can't we just make them appear the same? > > It may be that something like a sensors package isn't important enough to > worry about (the machine still *works*, and everything else won't notice), > but if it's a simple matter of adding some random file to /sysfs, we > should just do it. We already have CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED for that. -- Jean Delvare - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
