Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754002AbYJQL3p (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:29:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752712AbYJQL3d (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:29:33 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.170]:16261 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752676AbYJQL3c (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:29:32 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=AfJ32OmfsMzRFMeT2sa1s/n6Xitx8iVc6sV2tJynNtl7cTeH9gxnsyN6ZGGEqQA8mZ 9/6PQsWR49tl7PZk7HyfKDx2TD/saTFPo/yH1/Zw5zv2DBavla6226AhJgvqb0sOIpvA aUvnREIqApXZh1MdidRLiqdMjaE0IUJZJK8fQ= Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:32:34 +0400 From: Alexey Dobriyan To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Adrian Bunk , Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change Message-ID: <20081017113234.GC18284@x200.localdomain> References: <20081016124943.GE23630@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <20081016151748.GA31075@kroah.com> <20081016164602.GA22554@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <20081017034717.GA28188@kroah.com> <20081017064751.GE22554@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <20081017075544.GB4850@kroah.com> <20081017085604.GA20986@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <1224237990.28131.84.camel@twins> <20081017111857.GB18284@x200.localdomain> <1224242787.28131.97.camel@twins> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1224242787.28131.97.camel@twins> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1248 Lines: 31 On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 01:26:27PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > 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? - It can, but is there a system call for this? > sounds like a useful feature :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/