From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steve Fox <drfickle@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:49:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061211184929.GA19262@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612111022140.12500@woody.osdl.org>
On Mon, Dec 11, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Olaf Hering wrote:
> >
> > Hmm, even moving this to linux_banner doesnt work, just because
> > __initdata is in a different section.
>
> Heh. Let's just change the "version_read_proc" string to not trigger.
>
> Something like this instead (which replaces the "Linux" with "%s" in
> /proc, and just takes it from "utsname()->sysname" instead. So now you can
> lie and call yourself "OS X" in your virtual partition if you want to ;)
Yes, that works. Thanks.
And if I'm really bored, I will dig up the reason why the very same
binary has to identify itself with different kernelreleases.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-11 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-11 15:11 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least) Andy Whitcroft
2006-12-11 16:33 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 16:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 16:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 18:04 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 18:18 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 18:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 18:29 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-12-11 18:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 18:55 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 19:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 22:04 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-12-11 22:04 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-12-12 0:05 ` David Miller
2006-12-12 0:05 ` David Miller
2006-12-12 9:10 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-12-12 9:10 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-12-11 19:20 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-12-11 19:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 22:42 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-12-11 19:37 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-12-11 19:56 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 20:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 20:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 20:21 ` Greg KH
2006-12-11 20:16 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 20:15 ` Theodore Tso
2006-12-11 20:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-11 21:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-12-11 18:49 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2006-12-12 12:23 ` Mach-O binary format support and Darwin syscall personality [Was: uts banner changes] Kyle Moffett
2006-12-12 16:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-12 17:56 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-12-12 18:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-12 22:34 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-12-12 22:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-12 22:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-12 22:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-15 12:53 ` Pavel Machek
2006-12-11 17:50 ` 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least) Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 17:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-11 18:00 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 18:08 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-11 18:14 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 19:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-11 19:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-11 18:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 18:40 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 18:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 19:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-11 21:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
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