Remove pre-2.2 Linux kernel support
Carlos O'Donell
carlos@systemhalted.org
Mon May 14 16:17:00 GMT 2012
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Joseph S. Myers
<joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2012, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
>> Please add a NEWS entry stating that pre-2.2 Linux kernel support was
>> removed.
>
> I've added:
>
> * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.2 has been removed.
> Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
> before 2.6.
>
> If pre-2.4 removal also gets in before 2.16 then obviously this will
> change to refer to 2.4 instead of 2.2. (I don't propose removing 2.4 and
> 2.5 support until after 2.16 is released.)
Thank you. I appreciate that. I think 2.4 or 2.5 removal should happen
after 2.16 is out.
Helping triage those bugs marked with milestone=2.16 would be very helpful.
Cheers,
Carlos.
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