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SubjectRe: 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least)


On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Olaf Hering wrote:
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> 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.

Linus
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