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From: jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes)
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 21:09:20 +0000
Subject: Re: SAL version checking
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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