Re: NetworkManager kernel and udev/eudev dependency, gcc build dependency

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 15:03 +0200, Petr Vorel wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the info.
>
> > AFAIK, there is no known minimal kernel-version (or minimal required
> > feature-set).
> It would to have one.

Like Thomas said, NM has implicit kernel dependencies for specific
features (userspace IPv6LL, bond/bridge mac address at creation, some
WiFi features, IPv6 temp addresses, prefix route creation, etc) but it
should gracefully degrade for most of these, with a slight loss of
functionality.

I think the oldest kernel I've run NM on recently was a 3.6 or 3.7
kernel, which at this point is almost 3 years old.

> > NM will try to accommodate to missing features and should mostly should
> > work -- of course, certain features might then not be available (such as
> > [2]).
> That's quite good news :-).
>
> > Try it and send a bug-report :)
> Sure :-). I'm going to test it on 2.6.37 with gcc 4.6.3.

While 2.6.37 may work, patches/bug reports will obviously handled on a
case-by-case basis depending on how invasive or complex they are.  If
it's pretty simple, then sure, we'll take it :)

Dan