Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:20:05 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs: Makefile-linux-2.6 => Makefile?
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On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 03:03:57PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
 
> Out of curiosity, what's the reason to drop VERSION & PATCHLEVEL... seems 
> handy if you have a common body of code that needs to build for various 
> kernels, with various Makefiles to suit.  As above. :)
The kernel is supposed to hold the code for the kernel - not a lot of
backward compatibiliy cruft.
In many places they were used to define KERNELRELEASE - but wrongly
since definition of KERNELRELEASE has changed.

	Sam
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