[libvirt] [PATCH 1/3] Remove support for old kernels lacking private devpts

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 10:59:04AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/03/2013 10:02 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> > 
> > Early on kernel support for private devpts was not widespread,
> > so we had compatibiltiy codepaths. Such old kernels are not
> > seriously used for LXC these days, so the compat code can go
> > away
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  src/lxc/lxc_controller.c | 28 +++++++++-------------------
> >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> 
> ACK.
> 
> We already reject compilation of LXC on RHEL 5 due to other
> configure-time checks; is this something worth turning into an
> additional configure test of whether a kernel is new enough, or are we
> okay with just leaving it as a runtime test?

We can't ever check kernels during configure time, because you can't
assume the build kernel matches the distro kernel. eg all Fedora builds
are done in a host with a RHEL kernel


Daniel
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