Re: Script to verify software levels

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
28 Jun 1998 18:32:13 +0200


thospel@mail.dma.be (Ton Hospel) writes:

> In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980628024533.16745N-100000@james.kalifornia.com>,
> David Ford <david@kalifornia.com> writes:
> > On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Keith Owens wrote:
> >> Fed up of seeing posts from people who have not checked their software
> >> is at the required level for 2.1 kernels. The attached script reads
> >> Documentation/Changes and attempts to automatically verify the software
> >> levels. Please hit on the script, mail bugs/changes to kaos@ocs.com.au
> >> (not the list) then I can get it in the kernel.
> >
> > once bugs and whatnot get worked out, how about adding this to some
> > required step such as 'make dep'.
> >
> There is no reason to think that the computer on which I compile the kernel
> is the computer on which I run the kernel.

And also many of the updates suggested in Documentation/Changes are not
really needed.

-Andi

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