linux-kernel - Re: .version keeps being updated

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0701102352400.28885@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Date:	Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:56:08 +0100 (MET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	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 Jan 10 2007 21:02, Olaf Hering wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 10, Olaf Hering wrote:
>
>with such a change, it will always be first. Tested on powerpc.
>I could even add an ELF parser and look for the first bytes in the
>.rodata section.

With such a change, you would not need to grep for it. You could use
binutils on it. `objdump -sj .rodata.uts vmlinux` would be a start.
Maybe not the prettiest output, but guaranteed to contain only the
banner.


	-`J'
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