From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs: Makefile-linux-2.6 => Makefile?
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:20:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060109212005.GC14477@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43C2CFBD.8040901@sgi.com>
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 03:03:57PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Out of curiosity, what's the reason to drop VERSION & PATCHLEVEL... seems
> handy if you have a common body of code that needs to build for various
> kernels, with various Makefiles to suit. As above. :)
The kernel is supposed to hold the code for the kernel - not a lot of
backward compatibiliy cruft.
In many places they were used to define KERNELRELEASE - but wrongly
since definition of KERNELRELEASE has changed.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-09 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-09 16:42 xfs: Makefile-linux-2.6 => Makefile? Sam Ravnborg
2006-01-09 16:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-01-09 17:19 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-01-09 21:01 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-01-09 21:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-01-09 21:18 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-01-09 21:03 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-01-09 21:20 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2006-01-09 21:23 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-01-09 21:45 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-01-10 7:45 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-10 15:14 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-01-10 16:34 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-01-10 20:02 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-01-16 23:19 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-01-17 3:40 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-01-10 20:00 ` Sam Ravnborg
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