SYSFS: Allow boot time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layout
I have some systems which need legacy sysfs due to old tools that are making assumptions that a directory can never be a symlink to another directory, and it's a big hazzle to compile separate kernels for them. This patch turns CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED into a run time option that can be switched on/off the kernel command line. This way the same binary can be used in both cases with just a option on the command line. The old CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is still there to set the default. I kept the weird name to not break existing config files. Also the compat code can be still completely disabled by undefining CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_SWITCH -- just the optimizer takes care of this now instead of lots of ifdefs. This makes the code look nicer. v2: This is an updated version on top of Kay's patch to only handle the block devices. I tested it on my old systems and that seems to work. Cc: axboe@kernel.dk Signed-off-by:Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 9 additions, 0 deletionsDocumentation/kernel-parameters.txt
- block/genhd.c 2 additions, 5 deletionsblock/genhd.c
- drivers/base/class.c 2 additions, 2 deletionsdrivers/base/class.c
- drivers/base/core.c 17 additions, 9 deletionsdrivers/base/core.c
- fs/partitions/check.c 9 additions, 10 deletionsfs/partitions/check.c
- include/linux/device.h 7 additions, 0 deletionsinclude/linux/device.h
- init/Kconfig 22 additions, 4 deletionsinit/Kconfig
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