linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least)

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Date:	Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:04:14 +0100
From:	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Cc:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@...hfloor.at>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Steve Fox <drfickle@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least)

On Mon, Dec 11, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> +static char __initdata linux_banner[] =
> +	"Linux version " UTS_RELEASE
> +	" (" LINUX_COMPILE_BY "@" LINUX_COMPILE_HOST ")"
> +	" (" LINUX_COMPILER ")"
> +	" " UTS_VERSION "\n";

main.o gets linked after misc.o, so this will not work. Having both as
globals in the same c file in the right order, that will probably fix
it. Let my try.

strings ../O-maple_defconfig/vmlinux | grep -w Linux
Starting Linux PPC64 %s
Linux
Linux version %s (olaf@g5) (gcc version 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)) %s
<6>%s: device enabled (Linux)
Linux version 2.6.19-g9202f325-dirty (olaf@g5) (gcc version 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)) #3 SMP Mon Dec 11 18:59:15 CET 2006
Linux
Linux
Linux


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