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On Thu, 19 Mar 2020, Peter Hutterer wrote:

> > Then we would need to support that attribute forever. IMHO the best
> > option is to just make a uname call and check the kernel version, with
> > the code marked to be removed in the future when kernels older then
> > $version are no longer something we want to support.

Oh, this doesn't work *at all* with distro kernels backporting everything 
that passess by to kernels with major versions looking years old.

I (as one of the "guilty ones" with my distro hat on) am not at all saying 
it's perfect, but that's the way it is.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs