Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1000112103806.19305A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
By author: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> What is its purpose? __SMP__ is not just defined or not defined from
> the linux kernel source directory, but also used for writing modules
> which, in fact, may not exist within the kernel source directory at
> all.
>
> So, if such a patch goes into the kernel, module makefiles now have
> to be modified to define "CONFIG_SMP" instead of "__SMP__" which,
> since they may not even have a "configuration", becomes just another
> PITA to support "change for the sake of change".
>
Not so. In fact, since you can pick up CONFIG_SMP by
#include <linux/config.h> this really should help solving one of the
major problems for module Makefiles -- having to match the kernel
configuration exactly.
-hpa
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