From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753396Ab1HVTDs (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:03:48 -0400 Received: from mail3.caviumnetworks.com ([12.108.191.235]:1219 "EHLO mail3.caviumnetworks.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753299Ab1HVTDp (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:03:45 -0400 Message-ID: <4E52A808.20207@cavium.com> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:03:36 -0700 From: David Daney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 Fedora/3.0.10-1.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Dumazet CC: Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers References: <1313795710-30827-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <1314038740.2531.8.camel@edumazet-laptop> In-Reply-To: <1314038740.2531.8.camel@edumazet-laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Aug 2011 19:03:45.0001 (UTC) FILETIME=[3724A590:01CC60FE] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/22/2011 11:45 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Le lundi 22 août 2011 à 11:30 -0700, Linus Torvalds a écrit : >> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Andi Kleen 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. > > For example, all kind of management software from HP doesnt work, unless > we pretend to run a 2.6 kernel. > > $ uname -a > Linux svivoipvnx001 3.0.0-08107-g97cd98f #1062 SMP Fri Aug 12 18:11:45 > CEST 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > $ hpacucli ctrl all show > > Error: No controllers detected. > Perhaps the 3.x version change patch should be reverted on the never-ever-break-userspace grounds. :-) It would appear that the 2.6 version information has become a de facto part of the kernel's ABI. David Daney