Re: [PATCH] Don't look for kernel version if not running on linux

[Ulf Hermann <ulf dot hermann at qt dot io>]

> You can get uname() on Windows through gnulib, but at the cost at
> linking to additional windows DLLs. It calls gethostname and for that
> we need to link against ws2_32.dll. That's an unreasonable dependency
> for getting something we cannot use anyway. I suggest we just set
> errno to ENOTSUP then.

I should clarify this a bit. We only use uname() to obtain the kernel 
version and we only use the kernel version to search for directories 
containing kernel modules. The only operating system where this makes 
sense is linux as we cannot handle anything but linux kernel modules 
there. Therefore there is no point in retrieving the kernel version on 
any other OS.

We might still be able to load linux kernel modules from some directory 
on a different OS, but the automatic detection of that directory can be 
skipped.

Ulf