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

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 1:46 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.
>
> 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

LGTM

Acked-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>

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