Minimum Linux kernel version for glibc 2.17

[David Miller]

From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 10:25:50 +0000 (UTC)

> Any comments?

I fully support increasing the minimum kernel version to 2.6.16

> (Suggestions that we require a kernel more recent than 2.6.16 are
> also welcome, but increasing the requirement beyond 2.6.16 would
> require more care about the accuracy of the existing conditions in
> kernel-features.h; see bug 9894 regarding some versions there being
> inaccurate; Aurelien was at one point doing a general check of at
> least the more recent entries in kernel-features.h.)

FWIW, I audited the checks in that file from a Sparc perspective a few
months ago and fixed up all the problems I spotted.