Question: Is there a plan when to require a higher Linux kernel version than 3.2?

Stefan Liebler stli@linux.ibm.com
Tue Sep 20 09:11:36 GMT 2022


Hi,

the minimum required Linux kernel version is currently 3.2 which was set
with commit 5b4ecd3f95695ef593e4474b4ab5a117291ba5fc
"Require Linux 3.2 except on x86 / x86_64, 3.2 headers everywhere." back
in 2016.

Is there a plan when to require a higher Linux kernel version and which
version will then be used as minimum?

Some background on my question:
On s390x, unfortunately the direct socket syscalls are not used due to
the __ASSUME_* macro undefines in
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/kernel-features.h if Linux kernel version
<4.3 is used.

Bye,
Stefan


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