On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 05:28:53PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:42:09PM +0100, Michal Marek wrote: > > reinette chatre napsal(a): > > > > Right - could we please use the solution that works at compile time? I > > > used UTS_RELEASE after learning about its use in init/version.c, would > > > that not make it an approved solution? > > > > It seems there is some misunderstanding. > > Alright, if Stephen's fix is acceptable then your suggestion is fine. > Sam seemed to suggest that Stephen's fix was a stop-gap. The need to use utsrelease seems very prominent in external drivers. But a quick grep turned up only a single staging driver in-tree that include utsrelease. So whatever problem this driver solves using utsrelease it is not shared with the rest of the in-tree drivers. So no - it is not a stop-gap. It is more a "is it really needed?". Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
