[OE-core] Any volunteers for fixing all the kernel version checks?

Eric Bénard eric at eukrea.com
Mon May 30 07:47:25 UTC 2011


On 30/05/2011 09:33, Koen Kooi wrote:
>
> Op 30 mei 2011, om 09:19 heeft Eric Bénard het volgende geschreven:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 30/05/2011 08:52, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>> As some of you might have seen already: http://lwn.net/Articles/445223/ - linux 3.0 is going to happen.
>>>
>>> This means all the crufty "is it 2.4 or 2.6" checks are going to need a rework :)
>>
>> Does supporting 2.4 kernels still makes sense in 2011 ?
>
> No, but I bet there are still checks present for that :) Or at least references like modprobe.26.

so can the fix be : remove any reference to the check and assume we are using 
a 2.6/3.0 kernel ?

Eric




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