Re: [PATCH 3/4] meson: enforce a minimum Linux kernel headers version >= 4.18

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 10:32:05AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> ---
>  meson.build | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

Since there's no agreement, I'll just consider this patch discarded,
along with the next one. I won't repost since Laurent has already
queued the first two patches.

With regards,
Daniel
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