Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:15:23 -0400 | From | "Theodore Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: Complaint about recent LINUX_VERSION_CODEs |
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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:58:04 -0400 From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
The only logical reason to not use KERNEL_VERSION is if you want to support 2.0.x (which should be deprecated, IMHO anyways).
There *are* still people using 2.0 in production environments. Without naming names, let's just say that some important parts of the Internet/web infrastructure are still using Linux 2.0 systems, and that if you've surfed the web lately, you've probably used a 2.0 system without knowing it.
As Alan Cox has pointed out 2.0 probably had the most stable VM, compared to either 2.2 or 2.4..... For folks who don't need the sexy new features of the newer kernels, sometimes staying on the older kernels for stability's sake makes good operational sense.
- Ted
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