linux-kernel - Re: .version keeps being updated

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701101331440.3594@woody.osdl.org>
Date:	Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:33:24 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
To:	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
cc:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	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>
Subject: Re: .version keeps being updated



On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Olaf Hering wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 10, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > Grr.
> 
> It did work for me for some reason, but I was wondering why it did work.

Because you didn't have CIFS compiled in? Right now that's the only other 
module that would trigger that particular string in memory, I think. So 
purely by luck.

> Cant we just invent a .data.uts section and put that into the
> i386/x86_64/ia64/s390/powerpc vmlinux.lds.S files?
> '"Linux version " UTS_RELEASE' in version.c

I'd rather have the problem fixed by just not doing the binary scrounging 
at all, or at the very least making the pattern-matching so strict that 
there's no way other "Linux version " strings can trigger..

		Linus
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