Re: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Seems pretty clear to me though it's a bug in the apps that are using
> '==' instead of .startswith().

This doesn't count under "no userspace breakage" doctrine.
Or rather, it shouldn't.

valgrind _compilation_ was broken by 3.0:
11 	*valgrind-3.6.1-r1 (09 Jun 2011)
12 	
13 	09 Jun 2011; Anthony G. Basile <blueness@xxxxxxxxxx>
14 	+valgrind-3.6.1-r1.ebuild, +files/valgrind-3.6.1-linux-3.patch:
15 	Fixed to build against linux-3.x, bug #370857

Was this fixed? Yes.
Will this break one more time? Of course!

         case "${kernel}" in
-             2.6.*)
+             2.6.*|3.*)
         	    AC_MSG_RESULT([2.6 family (${kernel})])
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