Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:49:29 +0100
From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>,
       Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steve Fox <drfickle@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least)
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On Mon, Dec 11, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm, even moving this to linux_banner doesnt work, just because
> > __initdata is in a different section.
> 
> Heh. Let's just change the "version_read_proc" string to not trigger.
> 
> Something like this instead (which replaces the "Linux" with "%s" in 
> /proc, and just takes it from "utsname()->sysname" instead. So now you can 
> lie and call yourself "OS X" in your virtual partition if you want to ;)

Yes, that works. Thanks.

And if I'm really bored, I will dig up the reason why the very same
binary has to identify itself with different kernelreleases.
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