Re: [PATCH] KERNEL_VERSION

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Sat Apr 22 2000 - 13:00:23 EST

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. 

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Building 1024            | realization that it's time to get up.
MandrakeSoft, Inc.       |        -- random fortune

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