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

Richard Purdie richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org
Tue Dec 20 12:31:01 CET 2022


On Tue, 2022-12-20 at 12:19 +0100, Petr Vorel wrote:
> > 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.

Fine with me FWIW.

Cheers,

Richard


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