[systemd-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] hostnamed: expose KernelVersion on the bus

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:34:05PM +0100, Djalal Harouni wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 08:53:27AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > On Wed, 23.04.14 23:03, Djalal Harouni (tixxdz at opendz.org) wrote:
> > 
> > > This is needed to fix bug:
> > > 
> > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76498
> > 
> > Hmm, do we really want to expose the version here? I fail to see the
> > general usefulness of this value. The release is a lot more useful and
> > we already expose that, so do we really want the version here?
> Speaking about the version it shows if this is an SMP kernel, and if the
> kernel is preemtible, IOW build with CONFIG_PREEMPT
> 
> Now, how many preemtible kernels are running systemd?
> 
> And by coincidence, here we are speaking about systemd-analyze :-)
> 
> Not to mention the build time stamp that will tell you if two same
> kernels differ... used in the embedded world.
It might be useful to distinguish bootcharts generated with different
kernels when comparing compilation options or whatever. I'd be
inclined to keep it.

Zbyszek