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Re: Remove pre-2.4 Linux kernel support

On Wednesday, May 23, 2012 13:22:43 Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2012, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > Once this is done, please add a note to NEWS and update the manual as
> > well to mention that Kernel 2.4.0 is the minimum requirement,
> 
> The patch already includes a change in NEWS from "2.2" to "2.4" (not
> mentioned in the ChangeLog entry, since we don't generally create
> ChangeLog entries for NEWS changes).  README already says "The library

I missed that part, it is fine.

> is unlikely to build without NPTL, or to work on Linux kernels prior to
> 2.6.".

 
> I propose this patch to remove references to old kernel versions in the
> installation documentation.

Yes, fine as well.

Thanks,
Andreas
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