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

[Xi Ruoyao]

On Tue, 2022-09-20 at 11:11 +0200, Stefan Liebler via Libc-alpha wrote:
> 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.

You can use --enable-kernel=4.3 in your build if you won't use it on
Linux < 4.3.

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Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University