Subject: Re: LKM's and NetBSD kernels.
To: Greg A. Woods <woods@planix.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 06/10/1996 17:27:52
On Mon, 10 Jun 96 20:06:48 -0400 (EDT)
woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods) wrote:
> I had been testing against the value of NetBSD (from <sys/param.h>) in
> my #ifdefs, not NetBSD?_?.
Ah, that is supposed to change along with NetBSD?_?...
> > I'll let JT comment further on when the NetBSD1_2 symbol will change to 1.
>
> Which reminds me. How is a LKM supposed to check this?
>
> I had assumed the current version symbol would be stored in a static
> variable somewhere, but I find instead LKM_VERSION, which isn't related
> at all (and in kern_lkm.c seems to be the only value passed to the
> module for comparison on startup).
>
> This kernel release management is still a bit primitive and very hairy! ;-)
I'm not really sure ... I must admit that I don't spend a lot of time
thinking about such things.
If you come up with a solution, let us know, and we'll certainly consider
integrating it into the kernel!
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