Re: [PATCH] kernel/sys.c: Fix UNAME26 for 5.0

2019-01-07 Thread Jonathan Neuschäfer
On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 10:10:31AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:03 AM Jonathan Neuschäfer > 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

Re: [PATCH] kernel/sys.c: Fix UNAME26 for 5.0

2019-01-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:03 AM Jonathan Neuschäfer 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'd rather let

[PATCH] kernel/sys.c: Fix UNAME26 for 5.0

2019-01-07 Thread Jonathan Neuschäfer
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. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer --- kernel/sys.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)