Re: Complaint about recent LINUX_VERSION_CODEs

Brian Gerst (bgerst@didntduck.org)
Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:58:04 -0400


Jeff Garzik wrote:
> My own pet peeve is ppl avoiding the KERNEL_VERSION() macro when doing
> LINUX_VERSION_CODE tests. Makes each test a bit more readable.
>
> Jeff

The only logical reason to not use KERNEL_VERSION is if you want to
support 2.0.x (which should be deprecated, IMHO anyways). There are
also several different clones of KERNEL_VERSION sprinkled throughout the
kernel as well.

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Brian Gerst

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