[systemd-devel] version bump of minimal kernel version supported by systemd?
Greg KH
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Mar 23 08:26:05 UTC 2022
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 09:17:36AM +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 08:07:48AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 05:27:07PM +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > we are considering dropping upstream support for kernel versions < 4.4.
> > > Would this be a problem for anyone? (*).
> >
> > Given that upstream (i.e. kernel.org) has dropped support for kernel
> > 4.4, why not just move to not supporting kernels older than 4.9?
>
> It seems Civil Infrastructure Platform (a project under the Linux
> Foundation) still uses 4.4 [1].
Yes, but they are not going to be updating to a newer version of
systemd, right?
And they are going to be "supporting" that for 20+ years. If they want
to do something crazy like this, make them handle supporting code that
is older than 6+ years to start with. That's not the community's issue,
that's the companies that demand such crazy requirement's issue.
> In the Debian world, Stretch which has EOL scheduled for June 2022 has 4.9,
> and after that Buster has 4.19.
4.9 is fine, and is supported by kernel.org until next year as seen
here:
https://kernel.org/category/releases.html
I wrote "4.9" above, not "4.19" :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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