From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCHES] kbuild updates
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 03:28:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050906012828.GB7562@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509052232.04135.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
> > > How is this different from the preempt module vermagic?
> > >
> > > ~$ modinfo agpgart | grep vermagic
> > > vermagic: 2.6.13 preempt gcc-4.0
> >
> > My bad. Adding PREEMT to UTS_VERSION makes it visible in uname -a.
> >
>
> I see. I can understand adding an extraversion for SMP and experimental
> patches (like Ingo's RT work), but why is it useful to differentiate (by
> name) between preempt and non-preempt kernels? Do distributors wish to
> package both in parallel?
PREEMPT is in UTS_VERSION for the same reason as being present in
vermagic. It is one of these options being so fundamentally that we like
to both test for it and to know it when runinng uname.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-06 1:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-05 17:41 Sam Ravnborg
2005-09-05 19:35 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-09-05 20:13 ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-09-05 21:32 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-09-06 1:28 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2005-09-06 1:38 ` Matt Mackall
2006-01-06 21:03 Sam Ravnborg
2006-01-09 21:11 Sam Ravnborg
2006-01-10 16:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-24 22:22 Sam Ravnborg
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