Re: can i simply "re-version" the kernel down to 2.x?

2011-08-05 Thread Josh Cartwright
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 10:36:00AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > for reasons that don't need explaining, i need to rebuild my current > 3.0.0... kernel so that it returns a "uname" version number of > "2.whatever". i simply have an app i want to run that checks the > output of "uname" and

Re: can i simply "re-version" the kernel down to 2.x?

2011-08-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 10:36:00AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > for reasons that don't need explaining, i need to rebuild my current > > 3.0.0... kernel so that it returns a "uname" version number of > > "2.whatever". i simply have an app i want to

Re: can i simply "re-version" the kernel down to 2.x?

2011-08-05 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 10:36:00AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > for reasons that don't need explaining, i need to rebuild my current > 3.0.0... kernel so that it returns a "uname" version number of > "2.whatever". i simply have an app i want to run that checks the > output of "uname" and

can i simply "re-version" the kernel down to 2.x?

2011-08-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
for reasons that don't need explaining, i need to rebuild my current 3.0.0... kernel so that it returns a "uname" version number of "2.whatever". i simply have an app i want to run that checks the output of "uname" and if it doesn't see a major number of "2", it goes a bit squirrelly. there'