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

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Mon May 30 11:52:10 UTC 2011


Op 30 mei 2011, om 09:47 heeft Eric Bénard het volgende geschreven:

> 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 ?

That would get my vote!

regards,

Koen



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