From e52eec13cd6b7f30ab19081b387813e03e592ae5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 16:54:17 +0200 Subject: 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 Cc: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- block/genhd.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'block') diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c index 59a2db6fece..4e28a840bde 100644 --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -22,9 +22,7 @@ #include "blk.h" static DEFINE_MUTEX(block_class_lock); -#ifndef CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED struct kobject *block_depr; -#endif /* for extended dynamic devt allocation, currently only one major is used */ #define MAX_EXT_DEVT (1 << MINORBITS) @@ -803,10 +801,9 @@ static int __init genhd_device_init(void) register_blkdev(BLOCK_EXT_MAJOR, "blkext"); -#ifndef CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED /* create top-level block dir */ - block_depr = kobject_create_and_add("block", NULL); -#endif + if (!sysfs_deprecated) + block_depr = kobject_create_and_add("block", NULL); return 0; } -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258