Re: [gentoo-dev] the destiny of the 2.4 headers

2007-02-17 Thread Daniel Robbins
Mike, I think you have a good plan. Retiring the 2.4 headers sounds like the right thing to do. Building glibc against 2.6 and enabling backwards compatibility with older kernels should not be problematic. It all sounds good from a maintainability and stability perspective. Nothing should break

Re: [gentoo-dev] the destiny of the 2.4 headers

2007-02-17 Thread Luca Barbato
Mike Frysinger wrote: > now that the 2.6 headers have entered a sane state and are *quite* nice to I'm looking forward to see the cvs log of the removal of 2.4 lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] the destiny of the 2.4 headers

2007-02-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
now that the 2.6 headers have entered a sane state and are *quite* nice to work with, i have no inclination whatsoever to touch unsanitized headers (keep your puns to yourself :p) so here's the question i pose: what to do ? people file bug reports saying "package FOO fails to build with linux-2