Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755178AbXIDPAi (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:00:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754699AbXIDPAW (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:00:22 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:39585 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754660AbXIDPAU (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:00:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 17:00:18 +0200 From: Bernhard Walle To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: Dan Aloni Subject: [PATCH] Add ELF note with Linux version Message-ID: <20070904150018.GA4357@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Dan Aloni MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Organization: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1550 Lines: 52 This patch adds version information to the ELF kernel file. Together with the bzImage version information, this allows distributions to identify the kernel version based on the file name. Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle --- include/linux/elfnote.h | 9 +++++++++ init/version.c | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+) --- a/include/linux/elfnote.h +++ b/include/linux/elfnote.h @@ -93,6 +93,15 @@ #define ELFNOTE32(name, type, desc) ELFNOTE(32, name, type, desc) #define ELFNOTE64(name, type, desc) ELFNOTE(64, name, type, desc) + +#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT +#define ELFNOTE_C(params...) ELFNOTE64(params) +#else +#define ELFNOTE_C(params...) ELFNOTE32(params) +#endif + #endif /* __ASSEMBLER__ */ +#define LINUX_ELFNOTE_UTS_RELEASE 0 + #endif /* _LINUX_ELFNOTE_H */ --- a/init/version.c +++ b/init/version.c @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #define version(a) Version_ ## a @@ -42,3 +43,5 @@ const char linux_proc_banner[] = "%s version %s" " (" LINUX_COMPILE_BY "@" LINUX_COMPILE_HOST ")" " (" LINUX_COMPILER ") %s\n"; + +ELFNOTE_C("LINUX", LINUX_ELFNOTE_UTS_RELEASE, UTS_RELEASE); - 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/