Re: xfs: Makefile-linux-2.6 => Makefile?

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 16:44:45 EST


On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 03:23:39PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> codebases.
>
> But it seems useful for projects outside the kernel which would like to
> know which kernel they are building against, as far as the build system
> goes. I've seen a few drivers out there that try to keep building for both
> 2.4 & 2.6.
>
> I guess for 2.4 & 2.6, the same can be accomplished by using Makefile and
> Kbuild for 2.4 and 2.6....

Good point. External modules slipped my mind when I did this change.
We have today:
VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 6
SUBLEVEL = 15
EXTRAVERSION =

EXTRAVERSION will soon become -rc1
No sane driver will check for more than VERISON, PATCHLEVEL, SUBLEVEL.
xfs for once only used VERSION, PATCHLEVEL.

googling a little gave lot's of very ugly examples how it can be done
using grep, perl etc. So there is a legitim need for the variable
anyway.
So I will re-export VERISON, PATCHLEVEL, SUBLEVEL.

Sam
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