On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 10:10:31AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:03 AM Jonathan Neuschäfer > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > UNAME26 is a mechanism to report Linux's version as 2.6.x, for > > compatibility with old/broken software. Because of the way it is > > implemented, it needs to be adjusted to handle version 5.0. > > Do we actually need this?
I don't run any such old software, so I don't have a strong opinion here; I just sent this patch because I knew UNAME26 version strings would jump back without it. > I'd rather let it bitrot, and just let it return random versions. It > will just start again at 2.4.60, won't it? Correct. (Well, it's 2.6, not 2.4, but yes) > Anybody who uses UNAME26 for a 5.x kernel might as well think it's > still 4.x. The user space is so old that it can't possibly care about > differences between 4.x and 5.x, can it? > > The only thing that matters is that it shows "2.4.<largeenough>", > which it will do regardless. Good point, I guess that's a valid appraoch. Jonathan Neuschäfer
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