[LTP] [PATCH] lib: Check minimal supported kernel version

[Andrea Cervesato]

Hi Cyril,

> Hi!
> > LTP does not support kernels older than 4.4, but this requirement was
> > only documented in static text without automated runtime validation.
> > 
> > Define the minimal supported kernel version in tst_kvercmp.h so that
> > the documentation fetches it dynamically and the core library aborts
> > unsupported kernels with TCONF during test setup.
> 
> Great idea, but I wouldn't tst_brk() on older kernels, I would just
> print a message that there may be failures becuase older kernels are not
> supported or tested.
> 
> LTP has been historically used for many different purposes, e.g. for
> testing BSD compatibility layout for running Linux binaries and I fear
> that hard stop on older kernel versions would break these usecases.

makes sense, I will send v2.

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Andrea Cervesato
SUSE QE Automation Engineer Linux
andrea.cervesato@suse.com