Requiring Linux 3.2 for glibc 2.24

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Sun Jan 31 20:08:00 GMT 2016


On 01/31/2016 07:30 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:

> I see no compelling reason to switch to a non-supported version. Also I would have prefer GLIBC to keep supporting the minimum LTS kernel version instead of a specific version.

It's mostly 2.6.32 on everything except Alpha.  These cleanups won't
happen over night, especially not the less obvious ones (such as the
ST_VALID cleanup).  I just wonder if we could support 2.6.32 with little
more effort for a one or more future releases.

Florian



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