Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Oct 1999 11:48:13 +0200 (CEST) | From | Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <> | Subject | Re: Red Hat 6.1 version.h modifications |
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On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Zack Brown wrote:
> Dave Mandala over here at Linuxcare upgraded to Red Hat 6.1 and his ESS > Maestro 2 soundcard module stopped working. It was only by doing a reinstall > of the module that he discovered Red Hat's changes to version.h (and added > files) -- see below. > > It seems like this could break anything that checks version.h; or am I > wrong?
You are. The entire point behind the version.h changes is that applications will see the kernel we're actually using, and not a different one. In particular, this is because UTS_RELEASE should say different things about up and smp kernels.
The only check this change would break is something along the lines of using grep and sed to check for a value. Autoconf, for example, doesn't do this; it uses the preprocessor (thereby including /boot/kernel.h) before running any checks.
LLaP bero
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