How about major and minor releases

[Alan Cox]

> to play along with the stock kernels. If I remember correctly,
> installing a vanilla kernel on rhl 9 will cause hot flaming death of
> nptl and make an array of things just a lot unhappy.

If you do that the C library falls back to the old threading code. It
was an absolute requirement that we didn't break the ability to switch
kernels. I don't think any of my RH9 boxes run Red Hat kernels ;)

Alan