Re: Kernel version numbers after 4.9.255 and 4.4.255

On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 09:19:33PM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote:

David Laight wrote...

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A full wrap might catch checks for less than (say) 4.4.2 which might be present to avoid very early versions. So sticking at 255 or wrapping onto (say) 128 to 255 might be better.

Hitting such version checks still might happen, though.

By who? For what?

Also, any wrapping introduces a real risk package managers will see version numbers running backwards and therefore will refrain from installing an actually newer version.

package managers do not take the version from this macro, do they? If they do, please show me which ones.

thanks,

greg k-h