From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:35:12 -0400
Subject: any way to see the running kernel's "vermagic" string?
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1210161049170.14580@oneiric> (Robert P. J. Day's
	message of "Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:52:49 -0400 (EDT)")
References: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1210161049170.14580@oneiric>
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To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
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"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> writes:

>   perhaps i've just overlooked it but is there an easy way to see the
> current kernel's calculated "vermagic" string, as defined in the
> header file include/linux/vermagic.h thusly? [...]

Another way is systemtap:

# stap -g -e 'probe begin { log ( %{ VERMAGIC_STRING /* string */ %} ) exit()  }'
3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64 SMP mod_unload 

- FChE