Re: [PATCH] README.md: clarify minimum supported kernel and policy versions

On Thu, Aug 13, 2026 at 6:03 AM Petr Lautrbach <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Stephen Smalley <[email protected]> writes:
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> > Clarify the minimum supported kernel and policy versions.
> >
> > The Linux v3.0 kernel requirement is only for libselinux and anything
> > that uses libselinux to access selinuxfs. The policy build toolchain
> > does not link with libselinux or have any other runtime dependencies
> > on a particular Linux kernel version or even on Linux at all.
> >
> > Note the libsepol version in which kernel policy version 24 was first
> > introduced, and also note the first userspace release tag that
> > included the relevant libsepol versions. At that time, the release
> > tags were date-based rather than version-based and the versions were
> > updated more frequently than just once per release, so userspace
> > release 20090403 was the first to include both libsepol version
> > updates.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <[email protected]>
>
> Acked-by: Petr Lautrbach <[email protected]>

Thanks, merged.