Jonas,
There is in some cases where kernel drivers have changed. As you might
see in the ip_vs patch I posted, kernel drivers differ in Kernel 3 and 4
and thus it is necessary to know which kernel I am building for to
select the appropriate kernel configuration.
If the granularity requires to specify the patchlevel, and if LEDE had
more than one Kernel 3 patchlevel instead of just 3_18, then I would
have to specify all of them in my makefile. Not only that, but also I
would have to modify my makefile to include new Kernel 3 versions should
they be added in future to the LEDE build.
Mauro
On 20/02/17 09:40, Jonas Gorski wrote:
On 19 February 2017 at 12:50, Mauro Mozzarelli <open...@ezplanet.net> wrote:
Thanks to those who provided directions.
I will settle with checking on LINUX_3_18.
I am not sure who manages build variables, but in future it would be useful
to be able to identify which kernel major version we are building for.
Major version has no real meaning, what was expected to become 3.20
Linus decided to name 4.0, but the amount of changes between 3.19 and
4.0 were not significantly larger or more radical than the changes
between 3.18 and 3.19, or 4.0 and 4.1. IIRC the main reason for
increasing the major version was to keep the minor version from
growing too large.
So I don't think there is really anything to be gained by being able
to explicitly tell 3.x and 4.x (or 4.x and 5.x etc) apart.
Regards
Jonas
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