Re: Linux 3.0-rc3

[Andy Lutomirski]

On 06/15/2011 03:15 AM, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:59:41AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Denys Vlasenko
> > <vda.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > > I've got a patch for my project to fix parsing of kernel version which
> > > has only two numbers. Basically,
> > >
> > > - scanf(ver, "%u.%u.%u",&a,&b,&c)
> > > + sscanf(ver, "%u.%u",&a,&b)
> >
> > Please just fix it.
> >
> > The projects that care about kernel version are buggy in so many ways
> > that it's not funny.
>
> His problem is recognizing "kernel version" vs. "filename" as a
> parameter.
>    depmod [ -e ]  [ -FSystem.map ]  [ -n ]  [ -v ]  [ version ]  [ filename... ]
>
> Oh course, that's a stupid interface, but probably a hard one to
> change.

Well, the man page says that the version parameter is used to find 
/lib/modules/version.  So why not check if /lib/modules/version exists 
and, if not, try the filename?

/me is still annoyed that some expensive commercial software over here 
won't start if you have funny characters like '+' in your kernel version.

--Andy
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