[PATCH, revised] kernel versioning stuff

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 18 May 2006, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> Hello all,
> rday,
>
> On Thursday 18 May 2006 190, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 May 2006, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > > In modprobe, we also need to know wether running under 2.6 or 2.4,
> > > and I think we could/should use your new functions to check for
> > > that.
> [--SNIP--]
> > at least, that's the way i look at it.  how you choose to do it is
> > up to you but making your submission a separate commit means it
> > can be backed out separately if something goes wrong without
> > affecting the rest of it.
>
> You're right, and that was my intent. :-)
>
> But in fact in modprobe we just need more than just knowimg wether
> running under 2.4 or 2.6. We also need the full revision string to
> go and parse the modules.dep file that lies in /lib/modules/`uname
> -r`/

what do you mean by the full "revision" string?  we're back to
terminology again -- do you mean the "release" value, such as "2.6.16"
or what?

rday