Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:42:58 +0000 | From | Andy Whitcroft <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least) |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Andy Whitcroft wrote: >> I am afraid to report that this second version also fails for me, as you point >> out CIFS can break us if defined. > > Olaf, will you admit that the SLES9 code is crap now? > > Andy, does just replacing the "__initdata" with "const" fix it for you? > That should hopefully mean that IN PRACTICE the Linux version string will > be the first one to be triggered, if only because init/main.c is linked > reasonably early, and all the other "Linux version" strings will hopefully > be in the same rodata section.
Yes that does make things 'work' again. This all seems pretty fragile :(.
> > Sad, sad. We shouldn't need to work around tools that are so _obviously_ > broken like this.
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