Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:19:34 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least) |
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On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Olaf Hering wrote: > > SLES7 or SLES11 is not any different than SLES9 in that respect. > Suppose I send you some random vmlinux binary. How do you (you as in linus.sh) > know what 'uname -r' is inside this binary? > There are surely many many ways to pass that info. Having a string like > 'Linux version 2.6.19-g9202f325-dirty' somewhere in the binary is the > most reliable one. Dont you agree? > Just think about it for a minute.
YOU just think about it for a minute.
Your basic problem was much earlier:
"Suppose I send you some random vmlinux binary."
THAT is the problem.
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