Re: [PATCH] cleanup KERNEL_VERSION definition and linux/version.h

Mike Fedyk (mfedyk@matchmail.com)
Thu, 4 Apr 2002 18:07:52 -0800


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?
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