Re: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers

[Stratos Psomadakis]

On 09/13/2011 05:12 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Mon 2011-08-22 11:30:33, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
> ketchup :-(. And no, it is probably not what you wanted, and no, it is
> not easy to fix.
>
ketchup? [1]

Well, I think it doesn't really matter at all, if ketchup broke with 3.x
kernels, but there is a (semi-)working version of ketchup (I'm not very
proud of the code I wrote), which works with 3.x kernels (and
fortunately with 4.x and later).

[1] https://github.com/psomas/ketchup

Thanks,

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Stratos Psomadakis
<psomas@xxxxxxxxxx>


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Stratos Psomadakis
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