Messages in this thread |  | | From | Masahiro Yamada <> | Date | Fri, 12 Feb 2021 05:18:58 +0900 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kbuild: simplify access to the kernel's version |
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On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 3:20 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 05:50:07PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 11:13:52AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: > >> + (u8)(LINUX_VERSION_MAJOR), (u8)(LINUX_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL), > >> + (u16)(LINUX_VERSION_SUBLEVEL)); > > > >No need for the casts and braces. > >
I agree.
Shall I remove the casts when I apply this?
> >Otherwise this looks good, but please also kill off KERNEL_VERSION > >and LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION entirely while you're at it. > > I don't think there are in-tree users left? > > We can't remove it completely because userspace is still using it, so if > we drop those userspace will be sad.
Right. Once we export a macros to userspace, we cannot remove it.
> -- > Thanks, > Sasha
-- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
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