Re: [Dri-devel] Re: LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION use in DRM

[Gareth H. <ga...@va...>]

Rik Faith wrote:
> 
> There was a problem with doing that because it has to be done early and
> then the kernel might define it later (at which time, it's already
> defined).  You can try it -- you might have changed enough that it works
> now.  But try the stand-alone version with both 2.2 and 2.4.
> 
> I guess I don't see why it's worth doing _any_ work to use
> KERNEL_VERSION.  It doesn't provide any benefit that a comment won't
> provide (and even that isn't necessary for people with 16 fingers :).

I was just thinking of keeping things consistent (ie. doing what the
rest of the kernel code does).  I don't really care that much, and as
you say, there are so many more important things to do ;-)

-- Gareth