Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:54:00 +0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers | From | Américo Wang <> |
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote: >> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> >> >> 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 ?
A boot parameter to change kernel version sounds odd.
> > 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... >
Then a Kconfig option would help.
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