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

[Djalal Harouni]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:45:24PM +0200, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> 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.
Lennart please, can we close this bugzilla entry?

Thanks in advance!

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Djalal Harouni
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