Re: older kernels + new glibc?

[Lev Lvovsky]

On Mar 29, 2004, at 1:22 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 23:09, Lev Lvovsky wrote:
> > We have the source of the drivers, but they are specific to the 2.2.x
> > kernels.  I am not a kernel hacker, and this would be way beyond my
> > area of expertise.
> >
> > And sadly, this doesn't answer the initial question.
>
> then to answer your question; at compile time you tell glibc what
> minimum kernel version it can assume, and based on that glibc will
> enable/disable certain features. So it depends on what your distro
> supplied there if it'll work or not. if you tell glibc that at minimum
> you do 2.4.1 for example, then no a 2.2 kernel won't work. I think most
> distros do this (or an even later version) since a few years now.

perfect - where does this variable get set?  sorry for what now seems 
like OT glibc stuff.

thanks,
-lev

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