I think it's going to have to be converted in the Makefile and then passed in as major, minor, etc. via -D's. Not real pretty, but it's effectively the same thing. You can still do your #if's, but not directly on the string constant. It's surprising that strings can't be compared by cpp... Phil On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 09:03:55AM -0500, Mark Studebaker wrote: > So we're back to my original question. > Write me a #if statement that decides if one string is greater than another. > Good luck. > > phil at netroedge.com wrote: > > > > How about this, let's use the #ifdefs to make life a little easier for > > users in the short term. But, work on recombing the two projects now > > that we have a chance with 2.5.x. When 2.6.0 comes out, we can take > > the #ifdefs out and have a unified project again. If we get lucky, > > maybe Alan might let a combined lm-sensors/i2c update into 2.4.x so we > > can start a little earlier. :') > > > > Phil > > > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:14:04PM -0500, Mark D. Studebaker wrote: > > > But I'm so happy to not require people to download and install > > > a new i2c right now. It really will cut down on tickets, etc, > > > if we can hold that line for a while. > > > As soon as I put in a i2c_smbus_i2c_read_block_data() call > > > without an #ifdef, we're right back where we started. > > > > > > phil at netroedge.com wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 08:14:45PM -0500, Mark D. Studebaker wrote: > > > > > You can do anything in code but I'm trying to call a function > > > > > that doesn't exist in 2.6.2 or earlier so I need > > > > > to do the comparison in the preprocessor in a #if statement > > > > > so I don't get an undefined symbol. > > > > > > > > I'd tend to lean towards being stubburn and not compiling than > > > > littering the code with more #ifdef's if they are using an old I2C. > > > > We've been updating I2C a lot for a while, but maybe we won't need to > > > > as much in the future? > > > > -- > > Philip Edelbrock -- IS Manager -- Edge Design, Corvallis, OR > > phil at netroedge.com -- http://www.netroedge.com/~phil > > PGP F16: 01 D2 FD 01 B5 46 F4 F0 3A 8B 9D 7E 14 7F FB 7A -- Philip Edelbrock -- IS Manager -- Edge Design, Corvallis, OR phil at netroedge.com -- http://www.netroedge.com/~phil PGP F16: 01 D2 FD 01 B5 46 F4 F0 3A 8B 9D 7E 14 7F FB 7A
