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

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Date:	Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:49:29 +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:

> 
> 
> 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.
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