From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: can i simply "re-version" the kernel down to 2.x?
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 08:19:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110805151901.GA18714@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1108051033350.4963@localhost6.localdomain6>
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 10:36:00AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> for reasons that don't need explaining, i need to rebuild my current
> 3.0.0... kernel so that it returns a "uname" version number of
> "2.whatever". i simply have an app i want to run that checks the
> output of "uname" and if it doesn't see a major number of "2", it goes
> a bit squirrelly.
>
> there's no *technical* reason i can see for the app to be that
> restrictive, so i was just going to hack the top level Makefile of my
> git clone and label this as a 2.99.99 kernel. is there anything that
> would break because of that kind of hackery?
Why not just call it 2.6.40 like Fedora is doing for this very reason?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-05 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-05 14:36 can i simply "re-version" the kernel down to 2.x? Robert P. J. Day
2011-08-05 15:19 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-08-05 15:31 ` Robert P. J. Day
2011-08-06 3:52 ` Josh Cartwright
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