Finally a benefit of the version change

Posted Aug 5, 2011 18:43 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: Finally a benefit of the version change by jengelh
Parent article: The 3.0.1 stable update is out

It's not about API change. The external project should be able to work around bugs in the kernel or print a warning that they cannot be worked around.

Finally a benefit of the version change

Posted Aug 6, 2011 13:40 UTC (Sat) by hmh (subscriber, #3838) [Link]

Most of the time, you really should check for the problem itself (this is, however, not always possible).

Finally a benefit of the version change

Posted Aug 8, 2011 9:52 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

This won't work always. Distributions can and do backport changes or change the numbers (c.f. 2.6.32 in RHEL/SLES or 2.6.40 in Fedora 15). It is similar to the problem of testing for a feature or a bug in browsers. You can't do simple version checks and get it right typically.