Re: How to Determine Which Kernel

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Date: Fri Mar 31 2000 - 18:47:46 EST

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    By author: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
    In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
    >
    > My configuration file for building drivers does:
    >
    > echo "Checking for SMP capability"
    > if uname -v | egrep SMP>/dev/null; then
    > echo "CFLAGS += -D__SMP__" >>.config
    > echo "This machine has SMP capability"
    > else
    > echo "This machine is not SMP capable"
    > fi
    >
    > It works for me. Standard discalimer, 30 m or 30 s.
    >

    It only works if you're building for the running kernel. This is
    severely broken. You should, instead, look at the headers in the
    kernel include file tree you're building from.

           -hpa 

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