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

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Message-Id: <1165868612.27217.434.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:23:32 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@...hfloor.at>,
	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>, 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)


> As far as whether or not it should be _mandatory_, to be able to pull
> out the version information from an arbitrary bzImage file, can folks
> agree that it would at least be a nice-to-have feature?  

I would really like for modinfo to work. it may not work on bzImage as
is, but it should work after gunzipping it... and it's the standard way
of conveying all this kind of info anyway

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