[PATCH] powerpc, x86_64: drop support of old kernels

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 08:06:18PM +0200, Eugene Syromyatnikov wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 09:18:29PM +0300, Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy wrote:
> > Drop support of x86_64 kernels < 2.6.34
> > without PTRACE_GETREGSET support.
> I think dropping support for kernels like 2.6.32 this early is not a very
> good idea. At least, it's quite dramatic change from "Linux kernel >= 2.6.18
> is recommended <...> Linux kernel >= 2.5.46 is required".

Is there any potential users of strace > 4.16 on x86_64 with kernels lacking
PTRACE_GETREGSET support?

When would it be OK to remove this getregs_old compat code?


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