Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> 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.
KERNEL_VERSION was introduced somewhere aroune 2.1.95. I submitted a
similar patch before but it got shot down because it was a large change
for only a cosmetic benefit. I have been working on a set of pruning
patches that pull out code for kernels earlier that 2.2. Once that
cruft is gone, then we can convert the remaining ones to KERNEL_VERSION
with less impact.
--Brian Gerst
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