linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers

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Date:	Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:11:21 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers

> It does not work if / on a ROM, unless you start using trampoline
> partition, but this is starting to become really convoluted...

On a ROM you never change the kernel.

Besides who uses ROMs now when there is flash?

-Andi
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