How about major and minor releases

[Adam Huffman]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Alan Cox wrote:

> > to play along with the stock kernels. If I remember correctly,
> > installing a vanilla kernel on rhl 9 will cause hot flaming death of
> > nptl and make an array of things just a lot unhappy.
> 
> If you do that the C library falls back to the old threading code. It
> was an absolute requirement that we didn't break the ability to switch
> kernels. I don't think any of my RH9 boxes run Red Hat kernels ;)
> 

It can cause problems if you have a kernel without the thread-local
storage patches.  I've been unable to run some binaries which work with
the Red Hat kernels in that situation.