From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QrQM0-00010p-TM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:11:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80BC121C39F; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:10:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C21B121C3B2 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:08:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D8651B400E for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:08:29 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -5.17 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.17 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.429, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VKRLS4rWO0kn for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:08:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B078164280 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:08:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QrQJI-0003X3-4N for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:08:12 +0200 Received: from c-b877e655.012-53-73746f50.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se ([85.230.119.184]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:08:12 +0200 Received: from che by c-b877e655.012-53-73746f50.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:08:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: che@chrekh.se Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: linux-headers-2.6.38 Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:07:59 +0200 Message-ID: <861uwsgylc.fsf@jane.chrekh.se> References: <86aabhh12r.fsf@jane.chrekh.se> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-b877e655.012-53-73746f50.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JCWHzQu8CnI2IluP0m7AnjN+MOk= X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: bd5a632eb1aef3197eb1ba6cd6d88761 Nikos Chantziaras writes: > > glibc will use things in newer kernels anyway. You don't need to use > NPTL_KERN_VER=2.6.38 in order for glibc to use 2.6.38 features; it > will do that by default. NPTL_KERN_VER only omits fallbacks for older > kernels. It's there to reduce the size of glibc. The size difference > is very small though. That seems likely. Thanks. Do you know if linux-headers-2.6.38 is needed for that to work? I would guess it is. -- Christer