* Carlos O'Donell: > It's not a great fit IMO. Just let the kernel version be the arbiter of > correctness.
For manual review, sure. But checking it programmatically does not yield good results due to backports. Even those who use the stable kernel series sometimes pick up critical fixes beforehand, so it's not reliable possible for a program to say, “I do not want to run on this kernel because it has a bad version”. We had a recent episode of this with the Go runtime, which tried to do exactly this.
