Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux 4.0-rc1 out.. | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Tue, 24 Feb 2015 03:34:56 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 16:43 +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > Am 23.02.2015 um 04:06 schrieb Linus Torvalds: > > .. let's see how much, if anything, breaks due to the version number. > > Probably less than during the 3.0 timeframe, but I can just imagine > > somebody checking for meaningful versions. > > > > Because the people have spoken, and while most of it was complete > > gibberish, numbers don't lie. People preferred 4.0, and 4.0 it shall > > be. Unless somebody can come up with a good argument against it. > > The only argument that I can come up with is "we do not break userspace". > For example there is this "gem" in configure.ac of valgrind: > > > case "${kernel}" in > 2.6.*|3.*) > AC_MSG_RESULT([2.6.x/3.x family (${kernel})]) > AC_DEFINE([KERNEL_2_6], 1, [Define to 1 if you're using Linux 2.6.x or Linux 3.x]) > ;; > > 2.4.*) > AC_MSG_RESULT([2.4 family (${kernel})]) > AC_DEFINE([KERNEL_2_4], 1, [Define to 1 if you're using Linux 2.4.x]) > ;; > > *) > AC_MSG_RESULT([unsupported (${kernel})]) > AC_MSG_ERROR([Valgrind works on kernels 2.4, 2.6]) > ;;
Heh, if this is an argument, we have one hell of a lot of reverting to do :) Crash for example breaks at much higher resolution, and indeed just broke yet again. Tough titty for userspace methinks.
-Mike
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