From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753920Ab1IMONI (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:13:08 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:36677 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752145Ab1IMONG (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:13:06 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:12:06 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andi Kleen , 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: <20110913141158.GA7352@ucw.cz> 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/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon 2011-08-22 11:30:33, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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. ketchup :-(. And no, it is probably not what you wanted, and no, it is not easy to fix. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html