Re: RFC: stop support for 2.6 kernel in the daily build

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On 09/13/2018 11:32 PM, Jasmin J. wrote:
> Hello Hans!
> 
>> I'm inclined to drop support for 2.6 altogether.
> RHEL 6 is on kernel 2.6.32, which we do not support since long time.
> Most other distributions switched to 3.x also years in the past.
> So lets drop 2.6.x then!

OK, I'll do that in the next few days.

> As you know I maintain a media-tree DKMS package and this should work for older
> Kernels. I personally have a VDR based on Ubuntu 14.04 system with the original
> 3.13 Kernel. So this is the minimum version for me.
> 
> When you want to support RHEL 7, then the version goes down to 3.10.
> 
>> Whether we should also drop support for 3.0-3.9 is another matter.
> We can decide now to remove those versions also and wait if people are
> complaining. At least this is what I would do.
> 
> I would suggest to remove all kernels prior to 3.10 from your build system and
> wait what people will say over the next months.

I'll wait a few days if I get any other comments about this, and if not I will
kill 3.0-3.9.

Regards,

	Hans



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