[systemd-devel] [PATCH] network: Implement fallback DHCPv6 prefix handling for older kernels

Patrik Flykt Patrik.Flykt at linux.intel.com
Thu Apr 9 03:45:49 PDT 2015


On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 12:43 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Hmm, in general, we really should try to create the same binaries,
> regardless if we are built on an old or new kernel. And the binaries
> should work as good as possible, regardless which kernel version they
> are running on. But with the change above the binary built on a newer
> kernel work differently from an older kernel, even though we added the
> definition to missing.h to make the distinction go away...
> 
> Or in other words: we try to do runtime compat, not just compile time
> compat, so that we don't strictly have to sync kernel and userspace
> updated.

Hmm, I was suspecting that for a moment. I need to come up with a better
runtime solution for version 2 of the patch then.

Cheers,

	Patrik




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