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Message-ID: <20081017113234.GC18284@x200.localdomain> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:32:34 +0400 From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 01:26:27PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 15:18 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:06:30PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 11:56 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:55:44AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 09:47:51AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > >... > > > > > > Packages are built in a chroot with the correct release installed. > > > > > > > > > > Then why would this break if they are being built against the correct, > > > > > older, kernel? > > > > > > > > How could you build userspace "against a kernel"? > > > > > > > > sys_*uname() returns the version of the running kernel. > > > > > > We have a uts namespace, you can make the thing return whatever well you > > > please. > > > > Hostname, domainname, what else? > > Can't it fake the version number? - It can, but is there a system call for this? > sounds like a useful feature :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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