why no patch to clean up kernel version calculation?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  any reason why my patch to clean up the kernel version calculation
wasn't applied?  there's still several source files that all have
their own code to calculate kernel version, as in:

util-linux/nfsmount.c:#define MAKE_VERSION(p,q,r) (65536*(p) + 256*(q) + (r))
networking/interface.c:#define KRELEASE(maj,min,patch) ((maj) * 65536 + (min)*256 + (patch))

and so on.

rday