On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Vegard Nossum wrote: > On 9/8/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > #define version(a) Version_ ## a > > #define version_string(a) version(a) > > > > int version_string(LINUX_VERSION_CODE); > > ... > > > > puzzled because this appears to be the only place in the entire > > tree that uses the macro version_string(). so is there some > > reason it even exists, as opposed to just using version() as it's > > defined there? > > The double macro is needed to create a symbol with the name > Version_<LINUX_VERSION_CODE>. If you simply replace "version_string" > with "version", you'd get a symbol named > "Version_LINUX_VERSION_CODE". ah, quite right -- i *figured* there was a reason for that, i just didn't see it right away. thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
