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

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Date:	Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:19:34 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
To:	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
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, 11 Dec 2006, Olaf Hering wrote:
> 
> SLES7 or SLES11 is not any different than SLES9 in that respect.
> Suppose I send you some random vmlinux binary. How do you (you as in linus.sh)
> know what 'uname -r' is inside this binary?
> There are surely many many ways to pass that info. Having a string like
> 'Linux version 2.6.19-g9202f325-dirty' somewhere in the binary is the
> most reliable one. Dont you agree?
> Just think about it for a minute.

YOU just think about it for a minute.

Your basic problem was much earlier:

	"Suppose I send you some random vmlinux binary."

THAT is the problem.

		Linus
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