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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: linux-headers-2.6.38
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:36:10 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA2qdGW2Z7C77s1JQ=JkGOXrixr=2NfzSv2q=zwT97dRYbKwyA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86aabhh12r.fsf@jane.chrekh.se>

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 20:02,  <che@chrekh.se> wrote:
> Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> 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.
>

Hmmm... without a reference, I'd rather not do something too drastic...

> Also, beware. If you recompile glibc withe NPTL_KERN_VER set, you can't
> boot with older kernels anymore.
>

Can you explain what did you mean with "older kernels"? Kernels older
than a certain version, or a previously-compiled kernel on my system?

Anyways, this is a fresh install, so I don't think I'll have any trouble.

But will still appreciate a reference and/or explanation re:
NPTL_KERN_VER, though.

Rgds
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-10 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-10  9:00 [gentoo-user] linux-headers-2.6.38 Pandu Poluan
2011-08-10 13:02 ` [gentoo-user] linux-headers-2.6.38 che
2011-08-10 13:36   ` Pandu Poluan [this message]
2011-08-10 13:58     ` che
2011-08-11  0:50   ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-08-11  7:37     ` Pandu Poluan
2011-08-11  8:07     ` che

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