Re: Backporting the Linux kernel, for good - was: Re: semantic patch inference

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > I guess that the patch that spdiff will receive will already contain the
>> > appropriate #ifs, so we don't have to be concerned about them.
>>
>> That is correct.
>>
>> >ÂWe just add them in as is.
>>
>> I do not follow, add what?
>
> Sorry. ÂThe + code. The #ifdefs ad the compatibility code. ÂWe don't have
> to interpret it, so we don't care whether it is only related to kernel
> version numbers or something more complex.

Ah yes, indeed!

  Luis
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