On 12/11/2014 04:33 PM, Allan, Bruce W wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Chris J Arges [mailto:chris.j.ar...@canonical.com] >> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 2:01 PM >> To: Fujinaka, Todd >> Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] Issues with compiling ixgbevf-2.15.3 on >> Ubuntu 3.13.0-30 >> >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 09:46:15PM +0000, Fujinaka, Todd wrote: >>> First, thanks for the patch. You'll have to include it in the text of the >> message because it gets stripped here. >>> >>> Unfortunately, we may not be able to take it (depending on what you did, >> the attachment gets stripped) because you guys don't put any identifiers for >> your kernel (like a define that says UBUNTU_KERNEL) and just going off >> version numbers can collide with upstream. I know Red Hat and SuSE put in >> kernel defines to uniquely identify their variant kernels. >> >> Re-reading because I missed this. >> >> We actually do include unique identifiers in our released kernel headers, >> Under include/generated/utsrelease.h we have something like the >> following: >> >> #define UTS_RELEASE "3.13.0-39-generic" >> #define UTS_UBUNTU_RELEASE_ABI 39 >> >> This could also be used if a distro-specific solution if needed. >> >> Thanks, >> --chris j arges > > A few questions about the UTS_UBUNTU_RELEASE_ABI identifier: > > What versions of Ubuntu have it?
Trusty 3.13 and onwards should have it in: /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r`/include/generated/utsrelease.h > What puts it in utsrelease.h? (I have a kernel from 14.10 and it does not > have that) > In the example you provide, what does the number 39 indicate and/or how is it > derived? From the extension to 3.13.0? > > Thanks, > Bruce. > I'm not sure why you don't have it; what kernel version are you running? 39 is the ABI number, which is essentially the number of the release of that series (3.13.0) of kernel. As you can see UTS_RELEASE contains all this information. Let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks, --chris j arges ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
