Minimum Linux kernel version for glibc 2.17

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Thu May 10 01:01:00 GMT 2012


On Wednesday 09 May 2012 15:49:07 David Miller wrote:
> From: Mike Frysinger
> > i would prefer to keep the version checking in the features header
> > accurate. seems like the cost is already sunk, and removing them doesn't
> > really gain anything ?  we use this header verbatim in uClibc, so it'd
> > be nice to not have to fork it ...
> 
> I absolutely disagree, it is only confusing to keep around tests that
> are no longer necessary.

generalities are one thing, but the code actually in question is trivial to 
read and maintain especially because the #if is small, and it's already done.
-mike
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