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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
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Subject: Re: .version keeps being updated
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>> 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.
>
> objcopy -j .rodata.uts -O binary vmlinux >(the-checker-script)

For some reason that does not work.


  ../drivers/char$ objcopy -j .modinfo -O binary sonypi.ko 
  objcopy: stvfMiji: Permission denied

Why does it want to create a file there? This one works better:

  $ objcopy -j .modinfo -O binary sonypi.ko /dev/stdout

has more success.

	-`J'
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