Re: CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
<hmh@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Dec 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>> > Now when I try to boot, I get the message "... update kernel or
>> > disable CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPECATED...".
>>
>> This should be negligible.
>
> It is not. It will likely hang the box during boot as stuff wait for udev
> to create nodes that never show up.
>
> I don't know if it will eventually timeout, but if it will, it will take a
> _long_ time.
[Apologies to Henrique for first replying to him; darn Gmail default!!]
Not in my experience. I've been booting with this message for several
weeks now, with no observable degradation in boot time. And if it did
behave as you predict, "deprecated" is hardly sufficient warning!
Patrick
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