On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:46:15 -0600
ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

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> >>>
> >>
> >> yeah and THEY can put the defines in (RH used to do this fwiw as a
> >> generic "this is a RH kernel" define)....
> >>
> >> but afaik no distro vendor backports such an api change
> >> nowadays... and hasn't in 2.6 ever
> >
> > People backport drivers all the time that must support a wide range
> > of kernels.
> 
> I thought the argument was not that drivers are back ported but that
> internal kernel APIs changes aren't backported. 

exactly
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> So that testing
> the kernel version actually has a chance as a reasonable test for
> features.

or at least for this level of API change

For this specific change, I don't see ANY distro just backporting
this ... so a version test is just fine for this change imo.


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