| To: | Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: xfs: Makefile-linux-2.6 => Makefile? |
| From: | Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:20:05 +0100 |
| Cc: | Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
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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.
Sam
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