linux/init
Greg Kroah-Hartman 721da5cee9 driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED and CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED was added in commit 88a22c985e
("CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED") in 2006 to allow systems with older versions
of some tools (i.e. Fedora 3's version of udev) to boot properly.  Four
years later, in 2010, the option was attempted to be removed as most of
userspace should have been fixed up properly by then, but some kernel
developers clung to those old systems and refused to update, so we added
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 in commit e52eec13cd ("SYSFS: Allow boot
time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layout") to allow
them to continue to boot properly, and we allowed a boot time parameter
to be used to switch back to the old format if needed.

Over time, the logic that was covered under these config options was
slowly removed from individual driver subsystems successfully, removed,
and the only thing that is now left in the kernel are some changes in
the block layer's representation in sysfs where real directories are
used instead of symlinks like normal.

Because the original changes were done to userspace tools in 2006, and
all distros that use those tools are long end-of-life, and older
non-udev-based systems do not care about the block layer's sysfs
representation, it is time to finally remove this old logic and the
config entries from the kernel.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230223073326.2073220-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-03-06 07:46:23 +01:00
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.gitignore kbuild: build init/built-in.a just once 2022-09-29 04:40:15 +09:00
build-version kbuild: build init/built-in.a just once 2022-09-29 04:40:15 +09:00
calibrate.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
do_mounts_initrd.c freezer,umh: Clean up freezer/initrd interaction 2022-09-07 21:53:48 +02:00
do_mounts_rd.c init: add an init_unlink helper 2020-07-31 08:17:52 +02:00
do_mounts.c init: move from strlcpy with unused retval to strscpy 2022-09-11 21:55:10 -07:00
do_mounts.h init: add an init_mknod helper 2020-07-31 08:17:54 +02:00
init_task.c rcu-tasks: Add data structures for lightweight grace periods 2022-06-20 09:22:28 -07:00
initramfs.c initramfs: use kstrtobool() instead of strtobool() 2023-02-02 22:50:05 -08:00
Kconfig driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED and CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 2023-03-06 07:46:23 +01:00
main.c - Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add 2023-02-23 17:09:35 -08:00
Makefile kbuild: Fix CFI hash randomization with KASAN 2023-01-13 15:22:03 -08:00
noinitramfs.c init: move usermodehelper_enable() to populate_rootfs() 2021-09-08 11:50:27 -07:00
version-timestamp.c init/version-timestamp.c: remove unneeded #include <linux/version.h> 2023-01-09 07:34:38 +09:00
version.c init/version.c: remove #include <generated/utsrelease.h> 2022-12-10 10:33:20 +09:00