[OpenAFS-devel] Initial concern about Linux 2.4 patch

[Sam Hartman]

>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

    Russ> Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> writes:
    >>> * it appears to add a sys_name of i386_linux24.  I'm not sure
    >>> that is a good idea; I believe that the ABI for Linux has been
    >>> fairly stable

    >> i made that choice because its just standard 'afs' practice.
    >> that doesnt make it right though.  solaris 5.6 5.7 and 5.8 all
    >> share the same abi, but they have diff afs systypes

    Russ> I think i386_linux24 makes the most sense.  In practice,
    Russ> this will probably be associated with glibc 2.2 since most
    Russ> major distributions will likely do both of those upgrades as
    Russ> part of the same release.  (I believe Red Hat is doing
    Russ> that.)

I'm not sure if this will happen in Debian.  They have upgraded to
glibc2.2 for woody but I wouldn't be surprised if they still support
2.2.x kernels when it is released.