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

[Petr Vorel]

> 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!

OK, is anybody against raising the support to 3.10?

If not, I can change it:

-Minimal supported (although untested) kernel version is 3.0.
+Minimal supported kernel version is 3.10.

Kind regards,
Petr

> 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