Re: [PATCH] KERNEL_VERSION

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Sat Apr 22 2000 - 14:00:23 EDT

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    Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote:
    > There are several macros like
    > - CVT_LINUX_VERSION
    > - ASC_LINUX_VERSION
    > - KERNEL_VER
    > - LINUXVERSION,
    > - LinuxVersionCode
    > - ibmmca_header_linux_version
    > - local_LinuxVersionCode
    > which all do the same thing as KERNEL_VERSION.
    > LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION was compared agains values in hex, dec and the above.
    >
    > A patch for 2.3.99-pre5 changing all to KERNEL_VERSION is available at
    > http://www.lahn.de/~titan/prog/kernel_version.diff.gz

    Patch looks good.

    My only comment is that, from reading other compat code, it seems that
    KERNEL_VERSION macro might not be universally available... Code which
    wants to be compatible with older code would probably need an 'ifndef
    KERNEL_VERSION' construct at the beginning.

    -- 
    Jeff Garzik              | Nothing cures insomnia like the
    Building 1024            | realization that it's time to get up.
    MandrakeSoft, Inc.       |        -- random fortune
    

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