On Fri, 21 Oct 2022 at 15:30, Laurent Vivier <laur...@vivier.eu> wrote: > > Le 04/10/2022 à 11:32, Daniel P. Berrangé a écrit : > > Various areas of QEMU have a dependency on Linux kernel header > > definitions. This falls under the scope of our supported platforms > > matrix, but historically we've not checked for a minimum kernel > > headers version. This has made it unclear when we can drop support > > for older kernel headers. > > > > * Alpine 3.14: 5.10 > > * CentOS 8: 4.18 > > * CentOS 9: 5.14 > > * Debian 10: 4.19 > > * Debian 11: 5.10 > > * Fedora 35: 5.19 > > * Fedora 36: 5.19 > > * OpenSUSE 15.3: 5.3.0 > > * Ubuntu 20.04: 5.4 > > * Ubuntu 22.04: 5.15 > > > > The above ignores the 3rd version digit since distros update their > > packages periodically and such updates don't generally affect public > > APIs to the extent that it matters for our build time check. > > > > Overall, we can set the baseline to 4.18 currently. > > As this change affects entire QEMU build, I'd prefer to have some "Acked-by" > before merging it via > linux-user branch.
I still think we should be more conservative about kernel header requirements than we are for other dependencies. thanks -- PMM
