linux-kernel - Re: version.h

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Message-Id: <20100821102752.2486c864.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Date:	Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:27:52 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	runcoderen <runcoderzhcn@...il.com>
Subject: Re: version.h

On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:52:17 +0800 runcoderen wrote:

> hi Randy:
> but I donwload linux kernel source code version is 2.6.10

Yep, my bad.  In all of 2.6, version.h is a generated file.
(The trees where I found it were not clean, i.e., they already contained
the generated file.)


> 在 2010-08-20五的 17:48 -0700，Randy Dunlap写道：
> > On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 07:40:57 +0800 runcoderen wrote:
> > 
> > > hi all:
> > > the LDD 3rd edition is based on linux-2.6.10.
> > > Thus I downloaded the special kernel code.
> > > 
> > > but it can't find the version.h file.
> > > 
> > > the path I try to find is linux-2.6.10/include/linux
> > > -- 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Since linux 2.6.25, include/linux/version.h is a generated file.
> > I.e., it is produced at kernel make/build time.
> > 
> > 2.6.24 and before do have include/linux/version.h.


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~Randy
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