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 1QrPro-0007Oe-K1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:39:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C73021C37C; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:39:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (unknown [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B72A21C36C for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:37:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com ([209.85.161.53]) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QrPpO-000gKK-Tm for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:37:19 +0700 Received: by fxd23 with SMTP id 23so1932129fxd.40 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:37:14 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.223.15.13 with SMTP id i13mr12608505faa.51.1313048234352; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:37:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.100.4 with HTTP; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:37:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <86aabhh12r.fsf@jane.chrekh.se> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:37:14 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: linux-headers-2.6.38 From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr-us4.tirtonadi.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - poluan.info X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a9668fadc4ffee86e631bddfe07e07fe On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 07:50, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/10/2011 04:02 PM, che@chrekh.se wrote: >> >> There is at least a theoretical benifit if you set NPTL_KERN_VER=3D2.6.3= 8 >> in make.conf and recompile glibc. That way glibc could use things not >> present in older kernels. > > glibc will use things in newer kernels anyway. =C2=A0You don't need to us= e > NPTL_KERN_VER=3D2.6.38 in order for glibc to use 2.6.38 features; it will= do > that by default. =C2=A0NPTL_KERN_VER only omits fallbacks for older kerne= ls. > =C2=A0It's there to reduce the size of glibc. =C2=A0The size difference i= s very small > though. > Thanks for the explanation, Nikos. Since the size difference is very small, I'll just use NPTL_KER_VER as it is (that is, not mucking with it). Rgds, --=20 FdS Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ =C2=A0=E2=80=A2 Blog : http://pepoluan.tumblr.com =C2=A0=E2=80=A2 Linked-In : http://id.linkedin.com/in/pepoluan