Re: [GIT *] Remove inclusion of obsolete <linux/config.h>

[Petr Vandrovec]

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > FYI, fortunately (for you, unfortunately for VMware) 2.6.18's already broke 
> > our build script due to UTS_RELEASE being moved to separate file, so from 
> > VMware's viewpoint killconfig.h.git will not do any additional damage...
>
> #include <linux/config.h>
> #ifndef UTS_RELEASE
> #include <linux/utsrelease.h>
> #endif
>
> Then one can wonder why WMware needs UTS_RELEASE?

To make sure user is building modules for kernel it is really using.  Without
this test users were building modules for kernels they have run years ago, and
then complained that modules do not fit to running kernel, or that kernel
crashes when they do 'insmod -f ...'...  So perl wrapper passes linux/version.h
through C preprocessor and compares resulting UTS_RELEASE with `uname -r`, and
complains loudly if they do not match.
								Petr

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