Control: severity -1 minor
> It is possible that it cannot handle my extremely high kernel version
> number of 3.14.3720150331. The value 3720150331 exceeds the length of a
> signed 32-bit integer. I have never had such a problem before with
> lower valued version numbers.
The KERNEL_VERSION macro defined in <linux/version.h> limits the range
of the third component to 8 bits:
#define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))
So this is certainly not an important bug.
Ben.
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