Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763012AbWLKSkh (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:40:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S937469AbWLKSkh (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:40:37 -0500 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:36349 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763013AbWLKSkg (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:40:36 -0500 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:40:44 +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: <20061211184044.GA19244@aepfle.de> References: <457D750C.9060807@shadowen.org> <20061211163333.GA17947@aepfle.de> <20061211175026.GA18628@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: 623 Lines: 16 On Mon, Dec 11, Linus Torvalds wrote: > "Suppose I send you some random vmlinux binary." > > THAT is the problem. Erm no, thats reality and happens every day. git-bisect a modular kernel on one box and test it on another. The mkinitrd (and depmod) wants to know where to look for modules. Of course I could tell it every time what the kernelrelease is, but why do I have to? - 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/