linux-kernel - Re: .version keeps being updated

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701101131470.3594@woody.osdl.org>
Date:	Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:32:22 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
To:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
cc:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@...hfloor.at>,
	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
Subject: Re: .version keeps being updated



On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Which is why "__init" is wrong. It causes the linker to either put it at 
> the end of the thing (which would break the SuSE tool). Alternatively it 
> causes section mismatch problems ("init" and "const" don't work that well 
> together), in which case it might work, but only due to toolchain bugs.
> 
> Grr.

Does anybody have the silly SuSE kernel version tool, and could test that 
without the "__init" it all actually works?

		Linus
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