On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:48:09 -0600, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, so do we use 2.6.30.2 (LFS-6.5)? Do we need to update any other > packages in the requirements or make everything from LFS-6.5 (Aug 2009)? > Right now, the minimum requirements are from LFS-6.3 (Aug 2007).
If we set it to 2.6.30 (there's no point in adding the stable version as Glibc only checks the major.minor.patch level), we'll miss out on F_GETOWN_EX (new in 2.6.32 - see http://lwn.net/Articles/354842/) and recvmmsg (new in 2.6.33 - see http://lwn.net/Articles/334854/) support. Release dates of those kernels are as follows: 2.6.30 - 10-Jun-2009 2.6.32 - 03-Dec-2009 2.6.33 - 24-Feb-2010 So, by the time LFS-6.8 is released, 2.6.33 will have been out for just over 12 months. Given that most major distros have moved to a 6-month release cycle, and that LFS-6.7 also meets that dependency, I don't think it's an overly hard-to-meet requirement, so I propose bumping it straight up to 2.6.33. Thoughts? Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
