Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:03:36 -0700 | From | David Daney <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers |
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On 08/22/2011 11:45 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > 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. >
Perhaps the 3.x version change patch should be reverted on the never-ever-break-userspace grounds. :-) It would appear that the 2.6 version information has become a de facto part of the kernel's ABI.
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