On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 04:08:48PM +0200, Ulf Hermann wrote: > We don't want to use it, even if it exists.
I am not sure this is really the right place to patch. The value is retrieved through uname () which is POSIX and so should be available even on non-GNU/Linux systems. When kernel_release () returns NULL the callers expect errno to be set so they can use it to return a failure code. Cheers, Mark