Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:50:52 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Oops: ptrace fix buggy |
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On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 11:09:02AM -0600, James Bourne wrote: > will need to be looked at as these are ones which contain references to > SUBVERSION... References to EXTRAVERSION also reside in these files. It > would just be better to do the "right thing" IMHO.
Note that EXTRAVERSION is not numeric. A kernel version string can be like:
2.4.19-rmk7-pxa2
which definitely is not numeric. Anything which assumes it is would be broken.
-- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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