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
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