Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:55:36 +0100
From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Paul Mackeras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
       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:

> Do a
> 
> 	git grep '".*Linux version .*"'
> 
> on the kernel, and see just how CRAP that "get_kernel_version" test is, 
> and has always been.
> 
> But let's hope that CIFS is never compiled into a SLES kernel. Because 
> this isn't worth fixing at that point, and the SLES people should just fix 
> their piece of crap initrd script.

arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper:156:    version=`${CROSS}strings "$kernel" | grep '^Linux version [-0-9.]' | \

make $uboot appears to broken as well. I dont have a mkimage here,
so I cant say what it expects. Maybe the wrapper script can use 
'make kernelrelease'

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