linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.0-rc3

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:08:41 +0200
From:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.0-rc3

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Denys Vlasenko
> <vda.linux@...glemail.com> wrote:
>> I've got a patch for my project to fix parsing of kernel version which
>> has only two numbers. Basically,
>
> Why does your project care about kernel version?

It's depmod. It was assuming that if argument starts with three digits,
it's a kernel version:

        /* If a version is provided, then that kernel version's module directory
         * is used, rather than the current kernel version (as returned by
         * "uname -r").  */
        if (*argv && sscanf(*argv, "%u.%u.%u", &tmp, &tmp, &tmp) == 3) {
                version = *argv++;
        } else {
                uname(&uts);
                version = uts.release;
        }


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