Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756864AbXIFKgd (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 06:36:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751203AbXIFKgZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 06:36:25 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:34108 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751020AbXIFKgZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 06:36:25 -0400 Message-ID: <46DFD825.2020109@goop.org> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:36:21 +0100 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Dan Aloni Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add ELF note with Linux version References: <20070904150018.GA4357@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20070904150018.GA4357@suse.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 551 Lines: 15 Bernhard Walle wrote: > 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. > Seems reasonable to me, but I think the macro could be just called "ELFNOTE". 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/