From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754609Ab1IMOi1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:38:27 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:64746 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754414Ab1IMOi0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:38:26 -0400 Message-ID: <4E6F6A89.8020102@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:36:57 +0300 From: Stratos Psomadakis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110816 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek CC: Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers References: <1313795710-30827-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <20110913141158.GA7352@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20110913141158.GA7352@ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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, -- Stratos Psomadakis -- Stratos Psomadakis