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From: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
To: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Cc: "Alexandre Belloni" <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
	"Jan Lübbe" <jlu@pengutronix.de>, "Khem Raj" <raj.khem@gmail.com>,
	"Richard Palethorpe" <rpalethorpe@suse.com>,
	ltp@lists.linux.it, automated-testing@lists.yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [LTP] [RFC PATCH 1/2] doc: State the minimal kernel version
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 10:52:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAASaF6yUfeCS_MnTiYR1v291d=A0xzijDRJqz1SgGORvnCEXbg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221216094611.2924-2-pvorel@suse.cz>

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 10:46 AM Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> Because the tested version does not automatically mean the minimal
> supported.
>
> Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
> ---
> Hi all,
>
> I'm sorry to bother you, many of you concentrate on current mainline (or
> supported stable) instead of digging into history. But you might know
> about somebody who still cares about 3.x. Although not many of these
> people would try to run recent LTP on these old versions, but we never
> know.
>
> I started with 3.0 as that was the result of the old discussions over
> ML.  I'm perfectly ok, if we raise it to 3.10, which is tested.
> I guess after CentOS 7 EOL we should raise support even higher.

I'd be fine with raising it to 3.10, that still covers CentOS7 for now.
(3.10 will be 10 years old in couple months)

Acked-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>

>
> The motivation is to state the version here, instead in
> doc/c-test-api.txt
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ltp/patch/1671166923-2173-7-git-send-email-xuyang2018.jy@fujitsu.com/
>
> Also stating kernel version limits minimal libc version.
> Thus I'm not going to start a discussion about what libc version we
> support.
>
> Kind regards,
> Petr
>
>  doc/supported-kernel-libc-versions.txt | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/supported-kernel-libc-versions.txt b/doc/supported-kernel-libc-versions.txt
> index e48e3aeae3..f89c4882fb 100644
> --- a/doc/supported-kernel-libc-versions.txt
> +++ b/doc/supported-kernel-libc-versions.txt
> @@ -51,7 +51,12 @@ distribution you may as well reconsider you life choices.
>  | s390x         | cross compilation
>  |==================================
>
> -1.3 Supported libc
> +1.3 Minimal supported kernel version
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +Minimal supported (although untested) kernel version is 3.0.
> +
> +1.4 Supported libc
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>  [align="center",options="header"]
> --
> 2.39.0
>


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  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-19  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-16  9:46 [LTP] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Document minimal supported LTP version Petr Vorel
2022-12-16  9:46 ` [LTP] [RFC PATCH 1/2] doc: State the minimal kernel version Petr Vorel
2022-12-19  9:52   ` Jan Stancek [this message]
2022-12-20  4:58     ` Li Wang
2022-12-20 11:19       ` Petr Vorel
2022-12-20 11:31         ` Richard Purdie
2022-12-19 18:12   ` Khem Raj
2022-12-16  9:46 ` [LTP] [RFC PATCH 2/2] doc: Document used C standard Petr Vorel
2022-12-19  3:04   ` xuyang2018.jy
2022-12-20  5:00   ` Li Wang
2022-12-19 14:41 ` [LTP] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Document minimal supported LTP version Richard Palethorpe

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