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 1Qr8Rv-0003o5-38 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:03:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DAB5F21C07F; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:03:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F02E621C045 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:02:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 594B81B405C for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:02:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.999 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.600, 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 mbpkhsuYA4XT for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:02:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A76FA1B4036 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:02:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qr8QM-0002Ha-A8 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:02:18 +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 ; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:02:18 +0200 Received: from che by c-b877e655.012-53-73746f50.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:02:18 +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: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:02:04 +0200 Message-ID: <86aabhh12r.fsf@jane.chrekh.se> References: 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:fEkwpmsmI8Lom9Aud1UCXHWVaUo= X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fa858e93050da846a7b26919210b9f96 Pandu Poluan writes: > While I'm about to do an `emerge -e @world` ... > > Should I `emerge -av "=sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.38" ` ? > > Any benefits over the current "sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.36.1" ? There is at least a theoretical benifit if you set NPTL_KERN_VER=2.6.38 in make.conf and recompile glibc. That way glibc could use things not present in older kernels. I haven't researched if there are any such things, perhaps someone else knows. Also, beware. If you recompile glibc withe NPTL_KERN_VER set, you can't boot with older kernels anymore. -- Christer