Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763074AbWLKUYT (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:24:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763073AbWLKUYT (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:24:19 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:48272 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762953AbWLKUYS (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:24:18 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least) From: Arjan van de Ven To: Theodore Tso Cc: Andy Whitcroft , Linus Torvalds , Herbert Poetzl , Olaf Hering , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steve Fox In-Reply-To: <20061211201552.GB20960@thunk.org> References: <457D750C.9060807@shadowen.org> <20061211163333.GA17947@aepfle.de> <20061211180414.GA18833@aepfle.de> <20061211181813.GB18963@aepfle.de> <20061211182908.GC7256@MAIL.13thfloor.at> <457DAF99.4050106@shadowen.org> <20061211201552.GB20960@thunk.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:23:32 +0100 Message-Id: <1165868612.27217.434.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-2.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 636 Lines: 14 > As far as whether or not it should be _mandatory_, to be able to pull > out the version information from an arbitrary bzImage file, can folks > agree that it would at least be a nice-to-have feature? I would really like for modinfo to work. it may not work on bzImage as is, but it should work after gunzipping it... and it's the standard way of conveying all this kind of info anyway - 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/