Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change

Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-17T11:26:23Z

On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 15:18 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:06:30PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Hostname, domainname, what else?

Can't it fake the version number? - sounds like a useful feature :-)