[OpenAFS] Re: sysname for 3.x linux kernel

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:14:19 -0800


Ken Dreyer <ktdreyer@ktdreyer.com> writes:

> I am curious when OpenAFS will actually going to move their Linux
> sysname to linux3 :-)

Probably never.  The desired granularity is really site-specific, and
there's nothing about the 3.0 kernel that broke backwards compatibility
with code that was working under 2.6.

The kernel version is really the wrong thing to drive @sys values from
anyway.  If anything, you want the glibc version, or some combination of
facts that compose an ABI (which is more about glibc than about the
kernel).

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>