From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750919AbWGLLA5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:00:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750929AbWGLLA5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:00:57 -0400 Received: from mailgw.cvut.cz ([147.32.3.235]:2699 "EHLO mailgw.cvut.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750917AbWGLLA4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:00:56 -0400 Message-ID: <44B4D666.706@vc.cvut.cz> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:00:54 +0200 From: Petr Vandrovec User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060620 Debian/1.7.13-0.2 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg CC: Petr Vandrovec , David Woodhouse , torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT *] Remove inclusion of obsolete References: <1152631729.3373.197.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <44B435DE.4040708@vandrovec.name> <20060712033722.GA13096@mars.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20060712033722.GA13096@mars.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sam Ravnborg wrote: >>FYI, fortunately (for you, unfortunately for VMware) 2.6.18's already broke >>our build script due to UTS_RELEASE being moved to separate file, so from >>VMware's viewpoint killconfig.h.git will not do any additional damage... > > #include > #ifndef UTS_RELEASE > #include > #endif > > Then one can wonder why WMware needs UTS_RELEASE? To make sure user is building modules for kernel it is really using. Without this test users were building modules for kernels they have run years ago, and then complained that modules do not fit to running kernel, or that kernel crashes when they do 'insmod -f ...'... So perl wrapper passes linux/version.h through C preprocessor and compares resulting UTS_RELEASE with `uname -r`, and complains loudly if they do not match. Petr