Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762999AbWLKRuU (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:50:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762988AbWLKRuT (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:50:19 -0500 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:58381 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762972AbWLKRuS (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:50:18 -0500 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:50:26 +0100 From: Olaf Hering To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andy Whitcroft , Herbert Poetzl , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steve Fox Subject: Re: 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least) Message-ID: <20061211175026.GA18628@aepfle.de> References: <457D750C.9060807@shadowen.org> <20061211163333.GA17947@aepfle.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 952 Lines: 18 On Mon, Dec 11, Linus Torvalds wrote: > What crud. I'm even slightly inclined to just let SLES9 be broken, just to > let people know how unacceptable it is to look for strings in kernel > binaries. But sadly, I don't think the poor users should be penalized for > some idiotic SLES developers bad taste. 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/