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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. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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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