On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:46:15 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> >>> > >> > >> yeah and THEY can put the defines in (RH used to do this fwiw as a > >> generic "this is a RH kernel" define).... > >> > >> but afaik no distro vendor backports such an api change > >> nowadays... and hasn't in 2.6 ever > > > > People backport drivers all the time that must support a wide range > > of kernels. > > I thought the argument was not that drivers are back ported but that > internal kernel APIs changes aren't backported. exactly > So that testing > the kernel version actually has a chance as a reasonable test for > features. or at least for this level of API change For this specific change, I don't see ANY distro just backporting this ... so a version test is just fine for this change imo. -- If you want to reach me at my work email, use [EMAIL PROTECTED] For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
