From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756175Ab1HUXPp (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:15:45 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:46420 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752598Ab1HUXPo (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:15:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 01:15:44 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Jesper Juhl Cc: Arnaud Lacombe , Andi Kleen , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers Message-ID: <20110821231544.GM25996@one.firstfloor.org> References: <1313795710-30827-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:37:05AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On Sun, 21 Aug 2011, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > From: Andi Kleen > > > > > > Reposting due to popular demand. Several other people are running > > > into the same problem with all kinds of software. > > > > > > Only change is rebase against current master. > > > > > FWIW, couldn't this be made a boot option ? > > > > That might help some distros, say Fedora, who actually ships > > 2.6.40+x-branded kernels, or allow people to use no longer supported > > distros with recent kernels. > > > > About this last point, once functional, I intend to upgrade my trixbox > > install (based on 2.6.18) to a 3.x-ish kernel, that might be fun... > > > > Just a random thought. > Since this is purely to be backwards compatible with binary only software > that makes bad assumptions about the kernel version (as far as I can Believe it or not, even users of programs with source do not necessarily want or are able to to patch the program and recompile. Also binary compatibility is important. It's one of the things that made Linux successfull. > tell at least), shouldn't we make it explicit from the beginning that this > will have a limited life time by adding it to No. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.