Re: no version magic, tainting kernel.

[Gerd Knorr]

Jerry Cooperstein <[e-mail]> writes:

> is fine, but you have to have a Makefile in the current directory,
> and that Makefile needs a somewhat different form for 2.4 and
> 2.5 kernels.

It is no problem to use the same Makefile for both 2.4.x and 2.5.x,
and even let the Makefile do the RightThing[tm] in case the user just
types 'make'.  My Makefiles for kernel stuff look like this (stripped
down a bit):

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ifneq ($(KERNELRELEASE),)
# call from kernel build system

obj-m	:= btaudio.o

-include $(TOPDIR)/Rules.make

else

KDIR	:= /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build
PWD	:= $(shell pwd)

default:
	$(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules

endif

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If you need different stuff for 2.4.x and 2.5.x you can handle it
using ifeq ($(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL),2.4)

  Gerd