Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937438AbWLKSW2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:22:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763001AbWLKSW1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:22:27 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:51302 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763006AbWLKSW1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:22:27 -0500 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:19:34 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Olaf Hering 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) In-Reply-To: <20061211175026.GA18628@aepfle.de> Message-ID: References: <457D750C.9060807@shadowen.org> <20061211163333.GA17947@aepfle.de> <20061211175026.GA18628@aepfle.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 861 Lines: 26 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. Linus - 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/