From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753319Ab1HVSpr (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:45:47 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:61348 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753248Ab1HVSpq (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:45:46 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers From: Eric Dumazet To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andi Kleen , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen In-Reply-To: References: <1313795710-30827-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:45:40 +0200 Message-ID: <1314038740.2531.8.camel@edumazet-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Le lundi 22 août 2011 à 11:30 -0700, Linus Torvalds a écrit : > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > Reposting due to popular demand. Several other people are running > > into the same problem with all kinds of software. > > I have heard this several times now, but nobody actually ever says > *what* is broken. > > The Fedora people seem to have done the 2.6.40 thing without any > actual reason, for example (the two programs they claim were broken > were things that they had already fixed in rawhide, afaik). > > I'm not at all interested in these kinds of "all kinds of software" reports. > > Details. Examples. Name the f&*cking names already. Shame them publicly. For example, all kind of management software from HP doesnt work, unless we pretend to run a 2.6 kernel. $ uname -a Linux svivoipvnx001 3.0.0-08107-g97cd98f #1062 SMP Fri Aug 12 18:11:45 CEST 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux $ hpacucli ctrl all show Error: No controllers detected. $ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/hpacucli hpacucli-8.75-12.0