Glibc: --enable=kernel=???

[Dan Nicholson]

On Nov 13, 2007 11:00 PM, Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > OK, you told us what we should *not* do.  You've done the research.
> >
>
> No, I haven't. I have just pointed to an interesting (in my opinion)
> LKML message.
>
> > What is your recommendation?
> >
>
> No concrete recommendation yet. All values that glibc compared against
> are in glibc-<version>/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h, so
> please read this file, pick and choose anything greater than or equal to
> 2.6.2.

As a data point, Fedora uses 2.6.9.

http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/glibc/glibc.spec?r1=1.201&r2=1.202

As Alexander points out, our udev probably has minimum requirements,
too. I recall that some of the rules will only work with 2.6.16 and
newer kernels. Maybe that's not so important.

--
Dan