From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263218AbVGaNzi (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2005 09:55:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263222AbVGaNzi (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2005 09:55:38 -0400 Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.197]:7400 "EHLO nproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263218AbVGaNzg convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2005 09:55:36 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=n0lL8tvPTifzrWnGJ2Hr0L05VKWLMj6D9bGaXaFUQaAueKX9Faj+O0EpcnaVxO79aAcJmEOus1V4Ei0QC/hcEkytZC9G4s3xhbqk78BnwjBbXEgEC0FfOep1DBEyLyBiujTkVOcW1yojc6kpkEsc0IXKAiWHhs7EyCB0jyz94z8= Message-ID: <6f6293f10507310655243e7c4e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 15:55:33 +0200 From: Felipe Alfaro Solana Reply-To: Felipe Alfaro Solana To: Michael Thonke Subject: Re: 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <42ECE2FE.2090204@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050731020552.72623ad4.akpm@osdl.org> <6f6293f105073103045fd32d61@mail.gmail.com> <42ECE2FE.2090204@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > >Why was the KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) macro removed from > >include/linux/version.h? The removal breaks external drivers like > >NDISWRAPPER or nVidia propietary. > > > Hello Felipe, > > I could not regonize a breakage of NVidia (Version 1.0-7667) propietary > drivers. > They work just perfect. Indeed they do work perfectly, but I can't compile them (from the nVidia package) without adding back the KERNEL_VERSION macro in file include/linux/version.h.