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Re: Linux kernel version support policy
- From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Adam Conrad <adconrad at 0c3 dot net>, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal dot cx>, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>, David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, aurel32 at debian dot org
- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 23:41:47 +0530
- Subject: Re: Linux kernel version support policy
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On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 02:46:44PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> * general policy (my suggestion is that we default to not supporting
> kernel versions not maintained upstream, unless we believe in a particular
> case that there are important distribution versions using those kernels
> that make it desirable to support using them);
I am in favour of such a policy as long as we can have a discussion
before actually doing this, because it looks like our kernel support
is older than most major distributions.
> * moving to requiring 2.6.32, the oldest currently-maintained kernel
> series, for glibc 2.20 (release due July 2014)?
I think this should be OK. I'll ask Carlos to pitch in too, to be
sure that I haven't missed anything from the RHEL perspective.
Siddhesh