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Message-ID: <20110913141158.GA7352@ucw.cz>
Date:	Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:12:06 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, 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 Mon 2011-08-22 11:30:33, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.

ketchup :-(. And no, it is probably not what you wanted, and no, it is
not easy to fix.

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