Re: modules problems

Systemkennung Linux (linux@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de)
Sat, 21 Sep 1996 00:29:09 +0200 (MET DST)

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> > The problem still to be fixed is a way to differentiate modules compiled
> > for SMP and those for non-SMP. Working on it!
>
> Another $0.02 idea ... would changing the OS type from "Linux" to
> "Linux-SMP" hurt anything? It sure would be easy to detect a SMP
> kernel this way.

There are lots of shell scripts out there that rely on the assumption that
the output of "uname -s" is "Linux" under Linux.

Ralf

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