linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFwEgp=3F6uH198XuQR0=6Um-Kp+0Wjcm0Xv1WoHRveKXw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:30:33 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
>
> Reposting due to popular demand. Several other people are running
> into the same problem with all kinds of software.

I have heard this several times now, but nobody actually ever says
*what* is broken.

The Fedora people seem to have done the 2.6.40 thing without any
actual reason, for example (the two programs they claim were broken
were things that they had already fixed in rawhide, afaik).

I'm not at all interested in these kinds of "all kinds of software" reports.

Details. Examples. Name the f&*cking names already. Shame them publicly.

                         Linus
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