[systemd-devel] version bump of minimal kernel version supported by systemd?

Luca Boccassi bluca at debian.org
Thu Mar 24 10:28:39 UTC 2022


On Thu, 2022-03-24 at 09:38 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Mi, 23.03.22 11:28, Luca Boccassi (bluca at debian.org) wrote:
> 
> > At least according to our documentation it wouldn't save us much
> > anyway, as the biggest leap is taking cgroupv2 for granted, which
> > requires 4.1, so it's included regardless. Unless there's something
> > undocumented that would make a big difference, in practical terms of
> > maintainability?
> 
> Note that "cgroupv2 exists" and "cgroupv2 works well" are two distinct
> things. Initially too few controllers supported cgroupv2 for cgroupv2
> to be actually useful.
> 
> What I am trying to say is that it would actually help us a lot if
> we'd not just be able to take croupv2 for granted but to take a
> reasonably complete cgroupv2 for granted.
> 
> Lennart
> 
> --
> Lennart Poettering, Berlin

Yes, that does sound like worth exploring - our README doesn't document
it though, do we have a list of required controllers and when they were
introduced?

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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