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

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Message-ID: <20061211185536.GA19338@aepfle.de>
Date:	Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:55:36 +0100
From:	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Paul Mackeras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@...hfloor.at>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>, 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:

> Do a
> 
> 	git grep '".*Linux version .*"'
> 
> on the kernel, and see just how CRAP that "get_kernel_version" test is, 
> and has always been.
> 
> But let's hope that CIFS is never compiled into a SLES kernel. Because 
> this isn't worth fixing at that point, and the SLES people should just fix 
> their piece of crap initrd script.

arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper:156:    version=`${CROSS}strings "$kernel" | grep '^Linux version [-0-9.]' | \

make $uboot appears to broken as well. I dont have a mkimage here,
so I cant say what it expects. Maybe the wrapper script can use 
'make kernelrelease'

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