From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.0-rc3
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:15:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110615071555.GA26721@dspnet.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=MvvdTZAHG3N=HHTQd9v6uPNHfzw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:59:41AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Denys Vlasenko
> <vda.linux@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've got a patch for my project to fix parsing of kernel version which
> > has only two numbers. Basically,
> >
> > - scanf(ver, "%u.%u.%u", &a, &b, &c)
> > + sscanf(ver, "%u.%u", &a, &b)
>
> Please just fix it.
>
> The projects that care about kernel version are buggy in so many ways
> that it's not funny.
His problem is recognizing "kernel version" vs. "filename" as a
parameter.
depmod [ -e ] [ -FSystem.map ] [ -n ] [ -v ] [ version ] [ filename... ]
Oh course, that's a stupid interface, but probably a hard one to
change.
OG.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-15 7:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-13 23:01 Linux 3.0-rc3 Linus Torvalds
2011-06-14 11:07 ` gmack
2011-06-14 12:15 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-06-14 12:38 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-06-14 12:55 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2011-06-14 13:08 ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-06-14 17:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-15 7:15 ` Olivier Galibert [this message]
2011-06-15 19:29 ` Andy Lutomirski
2011-06-15 19:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-15 19:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-14 19:45 ` [patch] Re: Linux 3.0-rc3 (APM fix) Randy Dunlap
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