On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 04:16:39PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Today's linux-next build (i386 defconfig) failed like this:
>
> net/wireless/ethtool.c:1:30: error: linux/utsrelease.h: No such file or directory
> net/wireless/ethtool.c: In function 'cfg80211_get_drvinfo':
> net/wireless/ethtool.c:13: error: 'UTS_RELEASE' undeclared (first use in this function)
>
> Caused by commit fdd4b63be177e74b9346a557b75f4b48f3a42ee1 ("wireless:
> implement basic ethtool support for cfg80211 devices").
>
> utsrelease.h is now in include/generated after commit
> bbae701f7f258b051ed199ef71c5e85e683c0fb8 ("kbuild: move utsrelease.h to
> include/generated") from the kbuild tree. (My other builds only worked
> because utsrelease.h was left over in include/linux from previous builds.)
>
> I have reverted the kbuild commit for today. Sam, we need to come up
> with a better solution ... maybe for one release we could have the old
> files including the new files ... maybe remove the old files after
> 2.6.33-rc2 ...
It looks like not much uses utsrelease.h -- should I be using something
else to get a version identifier for the running kernel?
John
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