[gentoo-user] Re: linux-headers-2.6.38

Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> writes:

> While I'm about to do an `emerge -e @world` ...
>
> Should I `emerge -av "=sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.38" ` ?
>
> Any benefits over the current "sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.36.1" ?

There is at least a theoretical benifit if you set NPTL_KERN_VER=2.6.38
in make.conf and recompile glibc. That way glibc could use things not
present in older kernels.

I haven't researched if there are any such things, perhaps someone else
knows.

Also, beware. If you recompile glibc withe NPTL_KERN_VER set, you can't
boot with older kernels anymore.

--
 Christer