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On 03/06/11 19:22, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 01:53:45PM +0200, David Sommerseth wrote:
>> Considering that the last Linux 2.2 update was released 25-Feb-2004
>> and the first Linux 2.4 release came 04-Jan-2001, there are no
>> reasonable reasons to help users to stay on outdated kernels.
>> I consider this extra code path just waste of bytes ... so lets make
>> the world simpler.
>
> Basically, I agree on the idea, but I think there's more that should
> be thrown out...
>
> #if defined(TARGET_LINUX)
>
> #ifdef HAVE_LINUX_IF_TUN_H /* New driver support */
>
> ...
>
> #else
>
> void
> open_tun (const char *dev, const char *dev_type, const char *dev_node, struct
> tu
> ntap *tt)
> {
> open_tun_generic (dev, dev_type, dev_node, false, true, tt);
> }
>
> #endif /* HAVE_LINUX_IF_TUN_H */
>
> ...
>
> /*
> * This can be removed in future
> * when all systems will use newer
> * linux-headers
> */
> #ifndef TUNSETOWNER
> #define TUNSETOWNER _IOW('T', 204, int)
> #endif
> #ifndef TUNSETGROUP
> #define TUNSETGROUP _IOW('T', 206, int)
> #endif
>
>
> and of course...
>
> #if LINUX_IPV6 == 0
> if ( tt->ipv6 )
> msg (M_WARN, "NOTE: explicit support for IPv6 tun devices is not provided
> fo
> r this OS");
> #endif
>
>
> ... so: consider this an ACK, but there's more to do :-)
Thanks! Yeah, this is just something I stumbled upon lately, but I saw
that there are more stuff which can be cleaned up! I just take some
smaller steps :) More to come when I got more time to look at it :)
> Now, what did we agree was the oldest linux distribution that we wanted
> to support? Need to setup a VM with that, and then rip out stuff, and
> verify that things still compile, ...
I think James once said Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6. However, the
officially supported RHEL4 release is to my knowledge 4.9. That's based on
a Linux 2.6.9 kernel, iirc.
Kind regards,
David Sommerseth
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