Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness

[Jari Ruusu]

Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2004-06-19T19:35:56,
>    Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > Last time I checked, SUSE kernels include " characters in EXTRAVERSION
> > and KERNELRELEASE Makefile strings. Those " characters need to be
> > filtered out before EXTRAVERSION and KERNELRELEASE strings can be
> > used.
> >
> > Just another SUSE sillyness.
> 
> What kind of crap 've you been smokin'? Sue your dealer.

First 6 lines of Kernel Makefile (SuSE 8 ES on AMD64 Opteron):

VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 4
SUBLEVEL = 21
EXTRAVERSION = -$(CONFIG_RELEASE)-$(CONFIG_CFGNAME)

KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)


Last 7 lines of .config (SuSE 8 ES on AMD64 Opteron):

#
# Build options
#
# CONFIG_SUSE_KERNEL is not set
CONFIG_UNITEDLINUX_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_CFGNAME="smp"
CONFIG_RELEASE=207


Those " characters around "smp" will not go away automatically.
To see the difference try these lines in Makefile:

    echo $(KERNELRELEASE)
    echo '$(KERNELRELEASE)'

Those " characters make quite difference in Makefile code like this:

ifneq ($(KERNELRELEASE),$(shell uname -r))
    @echo You compiled this for wrong kernel
endif

You seem to use SUSE email address, so maybe _you_ should be answering this
question: What kind of crap 've you been smokin'?

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