From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: linux-headers-2.6.38
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:50:17 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <j1v8v7$lcn$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86aabhh12r.fsf@jane.chrekh.se>
On 08/10/2011 04:02 PM, 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.
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-11 0:51 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
2011-08-10 13:58 ` che
2011-08-11 0:50 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2011-08-11 7:37 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-08-11 8:07 ` che
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