Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Mar 29, Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Because I don't have /proc/sys at all - it is deprecated!
It's the first time I read this. Please provide an authoritative
reference.
Is this sufficient?
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0601.0/1296.html
It is a link to an archived linux-kernel message, about creation of
/sys/kernel/uevent_helper and deprecation of /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
I am sure the author, Greg KH, can explain the background better than me.
This don't mean that /proc/sys as a whole is gone - it is gone in _my_
kernel
because I have turned off various options for "deprecated backward
compatibility".
I turn deprecated options off when I can, and turn them back on only if
there
is horrible breakage. It took some time before I noticed the missing udev.
So yes - I can turn /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug back on again. But why do
that -
the interface is deprecated and the proper way is to fix the udev script
which
I now have done.
Perhaps debian will need to support both - as kernels from before
January 04, 2006
don't have /sys/kernel/uevent_helper. That is fine - but support for
the current
interface (/sys/kernel/uevent) needs to go in. We know how the kernel
development works,
some day they revoke the obsolete /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug and it is
best to be
prepared when that happens.
When searching the web for information earlier today, I saw indications that
rpm-based distributions already made this switch.
Helge Hafting
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