David Woodhouse (dwmw2(a)infradead.org) said:
> !CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED changes the sysfs layout significantly.
(Hey,
> when they say the kernel doesn't have a fixed ABI, they aren't kidding.)
>
> This breaks the hardware detection logic used by the installer in about
> five or six different places.
But changes to environment variables in the hotplug script invocations
shouldn't hurt, right?
No, but that's not the reason we have DEPRECATED on.
Bill