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From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: small feature request
To: kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens)
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 01:58:55 -0500 (EST)
Cc: reese@isn.net (Garst R. Reese),
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In-Reply-To: <11596.1007177140@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> from "Keith Owens" at Dec 01, 2001 02:25:40 PM
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Keith Owens writes:
> "Garst R. Reese" <reese@isn.net> wrote:

>> Would it possible to put a header on System.map indicating the kernel
>> version?
>> Sometimes my little brain forgets what kernel System.old is for.
>
> It is on my list for kbuild 2.5, once I start on the new design for

Nooooo!!!!!

Don't break stuff by adding headers. There is already a version
in the file. It's in decimal, which sucks, but this will find it:

grep ' Version_' System.map

Adding a random 128-bit ID might be nice, as long as it's done
in the same sort of way and is available via /proc. Something
like this would do:  kern_128_id_UkZd1JLdOvAsALfFEL1UI
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