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    driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED and CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 · 721da5ce
    Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
    CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED was added in commit 88a22c98
    ("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 e52eec13 ("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: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230223073326.2073220-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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