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

[Li Wang]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 5:52 PM Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> wrote:

> 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)
>

+1 that's exactly!

Reviewed-by: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>


>
> 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
> >
>
>

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Regards,
Li Wang