On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 13:00 +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> 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.
>
isn't this exactly what VERMAGIC is for instead?
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