Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750858AbXAKQsJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:48:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750863AbXAKQsJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:48:09 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:46047 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750858AbXAKQsG (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:48:06 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:47:20 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Roman Zippel cc: Jean Delvare , Andrey Borzenkov , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft , Herbert Poetzl , Olaf Hering Subject: Re: .version keeps being updated In-Reply-To: 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 736 Lines: 24 On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Roman Zippel wrote: > > Unless the SuSE tool is completely stupid, it should actually work: > > $ strings vmlinux | grep "Linux version" > Linux version 2.6.20-rc3-git7 (roman@squid) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #7 SMP Wed Jan 10 14:20:10 CET 2007 How about you do git grep '".*Linux version .*"' instead, and realize that it depends on your configuration option. Notably CIFS. In short: __init is actually a real *BUG*. Linus - 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/