Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:20:05 +0100 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: xfs: Makefile-linux-2.6 => Makefile? |
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On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 03:03:57PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Out of curiosity, what's the reason to drop VERSION & PATCHLEVEL... seems > handy if you have a common body of code that needs to build for various > kernels, with various Makefiles to suit. As above. :) The kernel is supposed to hold the code for the kernel - not a lot of backward compatibiliy cruft. In many places they were used to define KERNELRELEASE - but wrongly since definition of KERNELRELEASE has changed.
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