Randy Dunlap wrote: > What shell are you using? > Are you using any other build scripts that set an variable named VERSION ? > See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16510 Thanks for the bz pointer, this happens as I wanted to change the kernel version and added something for sublevel instead for extraversion, I can build drivers/scsi/gdth.c fine now, so with > VERSION = 2 > PATCHLEVEL = 6 > SUBLEVEL = 37 > EXTRAVERSION = -dd > NAME = Flesh-Eating Bats with Fangs include/linux/version.h has > #define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 132645 > #define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c)) and with > VERSION = 2 > PATCHLEVEL = 6 > SUBLEVEL = 37-dd > EXTRAVERSION = > NAME = Flesh-Eating Bats with Fangs include/linux/version.h has > #define LINUX_VERSION_CODE > #define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c)) and whoever is addressing LINUX_VERSION_CODE fails to get built -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html