linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.0-rc3

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Message-ID: <20110615071555.GA26721@dspnet.fr>
Date:	Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:15:56 +0200
From:	Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.0-rc3

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:59:41AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:15 AM, 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,
> >
> > - scanf(ver, "%u.%u.%u", &a, &b, &c)
> > + sscanf(ver, "%u.%u", &a, &b)
> 
> Please just fix it.
> 
> The projects that care about kernel version are buggy in so many ways
> that it's not funny.

His problem is recognizing "kernel version" vs. "filename" as a
parameter.
  depmod [ -e ]  [ -FSystem.map ]  [ -n ]  [ -v ]  [ version ]  [ filename... ]

Oh course, that's a stupid interface, but probably a hard one to
change.

  OG.

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