standard for kernel version calculation?

[Rob Landley]

On Wednesday 29 March 2006 2:55 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   um ... would someone like to suggest a single standard for kernel
> version comparison?  the (abridged) result of a recursive grep:
>
> 	if (get_kernel_revision() <= 2*65536+6*256)
> 	if (get_kernel_revision() < KRELEASE(2, 1, 0))
> 	if (get_kernel_revision() < MAKE_VERSION(2, 1, 117))
>         if (get_kernel_revision() <= 66314
>
> i'm thinking that perhaps just one of these variations would be
> sufficient. :-)

It would be nice if anything that actually needed to care could be moved to 
platform.h or platform.c somehow, but I doubt it's likely in the short 
term...

> rday
>
> p.s.  it's only *minimally* annoying that the funtion
> get_kernel_revision() is contained in the source file
> kernel_version.c.  perhaps one of these things could be renamed to
> match the other?  but i won't make a big issue of it.

Actually, _that_ should go in platform.c. :)

Rob
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