Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> writes: > While I'm about to do an `emerge -e @world` ... > > Should I `emerge -av "=sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.38" ` ? > > Any benefits over the current "sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.36.1" ?
There is at least a theoretical benifit if you set NPTL_KERN_VER=2.6.38 in make.conf and recompile glibc. That way glibc could use things not present in older kernels. I haven't researched if there are any such things, perhaps someone else knows. Also, beware. If you recompile glibc withe NPTL_KERN_VER set, you can't boot with older kernels anymore. -- Christer
