James Carlson wrote:
> Dan Mick writes:
>>>> I'm not disputing that there have ever been cases where it helped but
>>>> other methods that have been discussed in this thread can help too and
>>>> are actually more reliable.
>>>>
>>>> The solution should also be generic and not specific to kernel modules.
>>>>
>>> Yes, I agree. But I don't see that generic better solution spreading
>>> around gates.
>> This seems very much like a "perfect is the enemy of the good" discussion
>> to me.
>
> Only if you count printf("my version is %I%\n"); to be "good."
not printf, but %I% is perfectly sufficient for all the cases I've used it,
and there is no substitute. I'm still wondering why we strip all the
#ident strings, as that's even better.
Many of the 'solutions' here don't lead immediately back to source files.
That's a real loss, however useless you think it is; it wasn't useless to
those of us who, well, used it.
