The kernel ( along with QA ) has reported that the portage generated $KV is sometimes quite horribly wrong. They would like us to retire the kernel generated $KV, ebuilds that need $KV should inherit linux-info, unless they are themselves a kernel-module, in which case they should inherit linux-mod.
This also consolidates all the kernel version parsing nastiness into 1 place ( the eclass ) which means less work for us! The QA team will run testing against the tree to locate incorrect uses of $KV, granted the KV value is probably wrong right now for some users, we still need to migrate them over. We may need to retain the $KV variable for EAPI 0 portage, but I think that could actually depend on how bad the migration really is. -Antarus
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