Subject: Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:26:27 +0200
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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 :-)

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