[OE-core] [PATCH] nss: avoid to use the hardcode kernel version

Paul Eggleton paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Thu Apr 3 13:53:13 UTC 2014


On Thursday 03 April 2014 14:49:05 Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 14:13 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > Incidentally, I think maybe for 1.7 it's time we bumped OLDEST_KERNEL.
> > What a sensible minimum would be though I'm not sure. The minimum version
> > for udev 182 would be one choice, but I believe there are people still
> > using older kernels even than that.
> 
> What would be the advantages of bumping it up?

I could be wrong, but my understanding was that EGLIBC functionality specific 
to a particular kernel version or later is enabled / disabled based upon this 
value.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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