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s390-tools package

  1. Bug #1987387
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1987387

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bugproxy (bugproxy) wrote : Comment bridged from LTC Bugzilla

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2022-11-03 04:35 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #16)
> Packaging side, LGTM.
>
> However, I'm a bit skeptical at the patch itself, as it technically removes
> a feature. Do we have an analysis of why it's OK to remove the `block:`
> entries? I'm not too familiar with the ecosystem, so wouldn't it possible to
> have a focal userspace running on an older kernel that still presents the
> old way in its sysfs?

According to what i found,
this was deprecated in 2006 and can be re-enabled again in kernel with
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED but then a lot of udev tools will break.

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/init/Kconfig#L1287
https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/SYSFS_DEPRECATED.html

Does s390x support such old kernels ?