From: jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes)
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SAL version checking
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 21:09:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040223210920.GA8433@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040223210103.GG25779@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 09:01:05PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> +int sal_check_version(int major, int minor)
> +{
> + if (major < sal_rev_major)
> + return 1;
> + if (major > sal_rev_major)
> + return 0;
> + return (sal_rev_minor >= minor);
> }
>
>
> Anyone want to propose a different solution?
It looks reasonable to me, though I thought we were the only ones that
cared about PROM revisions ;). If you go ahead and push this in, we
could use it in arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.c, where we check for
incompatibilties bad enough to cause us to bail out...
Jesse
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-23 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-23 21:01 SAL version checking Matthew Wilcox
2004-02-23 21:09 ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
2004-02-23 21:21 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-02-23 21:43 ` Jesse Barnes
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