Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936965AbWLKSOV (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:14:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S937052AbWLKSOV (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:14:21 -0500 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:33043 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936965AbWLKSOU (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:14:20 -0500 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:14:30 +0100 From: Olaf Hering To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Linus Torvalds , 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: <20061211181430.GA18963@aepfle.de> References: <457D750C.9060807@shadowen.org> <20061211163333.GA17947@aepfle.de> <20061211175026.GA18628@aepfle.de> <1165859874.27217.382.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20061211180049.GA18821@aepfle.de> <1165860500.27217.388.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1165860500.27217.388.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> 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: 644 Lines: 18 On Mon, Dec 11, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > strings doesn't work there, it's a compressed image! Thats why get_kernel_version calls gzip. > also... can't you just know which vmlinux it is in the first place? No, you cant. > (or in other words, why is SLES the only one with the problem?) Everyone has this "problem". Or how do you know what kernelrelease is inside a random ELF or bzImage binary? - 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/