Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change

Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-17T10:06:47Z

On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 11:56 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:55:44AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 09:47:51AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >...
> > > Packages are built in a chroot with the correct release installed.
> >
> > Then why would this break if they are being built against the correct,
> > older, kernel?
>
> How could you build userspace "against a kernel"?
>
> sys_*uname() returns the version of the running kernel.

We have a uts namespace, you can make the thing return whatever well you
please.