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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers
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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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