From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cleanup KERNEL_VERSION definition and linux/version.h
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 18:07:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020405020752.GJ961@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020404011251Z313077-616+5298@vger.kernel.org> <17913.1017884166@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:36:06AM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Apr 2002 10:12:29 +0900,
> Hiroyuki Toda <might@might.dyn.to> wrote:
> >
> >Keith> This file will change completely in 2.5 when kbuild 2.5 goes in. Why
> >Keith> does it need to be rearranged in 2.4?
> >
> >Will kbuild 2.5 go in 2.4 tree also?
>
> No, but version.h is working at the moment in 2.4. Why change it?
Why do so many drivers enable options depending on the kernel version?
Shouldn't that be stripped out before a patch is accepted into the kernel?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-05 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-03 14:49 [PATCH] cleanup KERNEL_VERSION definition and linux/version.h Hiroyuki Toda
2002-04-03 23:06 ` Keith Owens
2002-04-04 1:12 ` Hiroyuki Toda
2002-04-04 1:36 ` Keith Owens
2002-04-04 4:31 ` Hiroyuki Toda
2002-04-05 2:07 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2002-04-05 2:42 ` Keith Owens
2002-04-05 17:55 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-04-06 3:41 ` Keith Owens
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2002-04-06 16:23 Dan Kegel
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