Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965264AbXAJXF1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:05:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965270AbXAJXF0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:05:26 -0500 Received: from tmailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.23]:38297 "EHLO tmailer.gwdg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965264AbXAJXFZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:05:25 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:56:08 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Olaf Hering cc: Linus Torvalds , Jean Delvare , Roman Zippel , Andrey Borzenkov , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft , Herbert Poetzl Subject: Re: .version keeps being updated In-Reply-To: <20070110200249.GA30676@aepfle.de> Message-ID: References: <20070109102057.c684cc78.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070109170550.AFEF460C343@tzec.mtu.ru> <20070109214421.281ff564.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070110181053.3b3632a8.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070110193136.GA30486@aepfle.de> <20070110200249.GA30676@aepfle.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 701 Lines: 22 On Jan 10 2007 21:02, Olaf Hering wrote: >On Wed, Jan 10, Olaf Hering wrote: > >with such a change, it will always be first. Tested on powerpc. >I could even add an ELF parser and look for the first bytes in the >.rodata section. With such a change, you would not need to grep for it. You could use binutils on it. `objdump -sj .rodata.uts vmlinux` would be a start. Maybe not the prettiest output, but guaranteed to contain only the banner. -`J' -- - 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/