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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers
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Le lundi 22 août 2011 à 11:30 -0700, Linus Torvalds a écrit :
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> 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


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