Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT *] Remove inclusion of obsolete <linux/config.h> | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:51:29 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 13:00 +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > Sam Ravnborg wrote: > >>FYI, fortunately (for you, unfortunately for VMware) 2.6.18's already broke > >>our build script due to UTS_RELEASE being moved to separate file, so from > >>VMware's viewpoint killconfig.h.git will not do any additional damage... > > > > #include <linux/config.h> > > #ifndef UTS_RELEASE > > #include <linux/utsrelease.h> > > #endif > > > > Then one can wonder why WMware needs UTS_RELEASE? > > To make sure user is building modules for kernel it is really using. Without > this test users were building modules for kernels they have run years ago, and > then complained that modules do not fit to running kernel, or that kernel > crashes when they do 'insmod -f ...'... So perl wrapper passes linux/version.h > through C preprocessor and compares resulting UTS_RELEASE with `uname -r`, and > complains loudly if they do not match. >
isn't this exactly what VERMAGIC is for instead?
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