[LTP] [RFC PATCH 1/2] doc: State the minimal kernel version

[Jan Stancek]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 10:46 AM Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> Because the tested version does not automatically mean the minimal
> supported.
>
> Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
> ---
> Hi all,
>
> I'm sorry to bother you, many of you concentrate on current mainline (or
> supported stable) instead of digging into history. But you might know
> about somebody who still cares about 3.x. Although not many of these
> people would try to run recent LTP on these old versions, but we never
> know.
>
> I started with 3.0 as that was the result of the old discussions over
> ML.  I'm perfectly ok, if we raise it to 3.10, which is tested.
> I guess after CentOS 7 EOL we should raise support even higher.

I'd be fine with raising it to 3.10, that still covers CentOS7 for now.
(3.10 will be 10 years old in couple months)

Acked-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>

>
> The motivation is to state the version here, instead in
> doc/c-test-api.txt
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ltp/patch/1671166923-2173-7-git-send-email-xuyang2018.jy@fujitsu.com/
>
> Also stating kernel version limits minimal libc version.
> Thus I'm not going to start a discussion about what libc version we
> support.
>
> Kind regards,
> Petr
>
>  doc/supported-kernel-libc-versions.txt | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/supported-kernel-libc-versions.txt b/doc/supported-kernel-libc-versions.txt
> index e48e3aeae3..f89c4882fb 100644
> --- a/doc/supported-kernel-libc-versions.txt
> +++ b/doc/supported-kernel-libc-versions.txt
> @@ -51,7 +51,12 @@ distribution you may as well reconsider you life choices.
>  | s390x         | cross compilation
>  |==================================
>
> -1.3 Supported libc
> +1.3 Minimal supported kernel version
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +Minimal supported (although untested) kernel version is 3.0.
> +
> +1.4 Supported libc
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>  [align="center",options="header"]
> --
> 2.39.0
>