[PATCH, revised] kernel versioning stuff

[Yann E. MORIN]

Hello all,
rday,

On Thursday 18 May 2006 190, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 18 May 2006, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > In modprobe, we also need to know wether running under 2.6 or 2.4,
> > and I think we could/should use your new functions to check for
> > that.
[--SNIP--]
> at least, that's the way i look at it.  how you choose to do it is up
> to you but making your submission a separate commit means it can be
> backed out separately if something goes wrong without affecting the
> rest of it.

You're right, and that was my intent. :-)

But in fact in modprobe we just need more than just knowimg wether running under
2.4 or 2.6. We also need the full revision string to go and parse the modules.dep
file that lies in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/

So I think modprobe can't benefit from the new function, in fact. Other opinions?

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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