linux-kernel - Re: glibc VETO for kernel version SUBLEVEL >= 255

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Date:   Sun, 26 Sep 2021 10:58:59 +0000
From:   Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@...tonmail.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@...el32.net>
Subject: Re: glibc VETO for kernel version SUBLEVEL >= 255

On Sunday, September 26th, 2021 at 12:29, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 10:10:53AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > Recently prompted due to https://bugs.debian.org/987266 the check was
> > removed in the postinst script of libc in Debian:
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=987266 .
>
> Wonderful, thanks for pointing this out!
> Jari, try asking whatever distro you are getting these rebuilt packages
> from to update their scripts and all should be good.

It is/was mostly self-inflicted pain, using Rasbian distro userland and
self-compiled kernel.org kernel.

Since that problem seems to be fixed in upstream glibc, that problem is not
going to persist forever.

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