linux-kernel - Re: Preparation for Linux 3.0

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Message-Id: <201106030719.EGD21835.LOJFHSFOFVOtMQ@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Date:	Fri, 3 Jun 2011 07:19:39 +0900
From:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
To:	hmh@....eng.br
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Preparation for Linux 3.0

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Jun 2011, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > We need to widely announce that userland applications using branches based on
> > /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease need to be fixed.
> 
> A debug patch to disclose any userspace application that touches that file
> would be of some help, I suppose?

Testing with a 2.6.39 kernel built with a patch

--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-VERSION = 2
-PATCHLEVEL = 6
-SUBLEVEL = 39
+VERSION = 3
+PATCHLEVEL = 0
+SUBLEVEL = 0
 EXTRAVERSION =
 NAME = Flesh-Eating Bats with Fangs

applied will be the best.

But a writable sysctl entry (or kernel boot command line option) that changes
the output of /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease may be of some help.
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