linux-kernel - Re: .version keeps being updated

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Message-Id: <acfe3f410c8bae877412655797a15e17@kernel.crashing.org>
Date:	Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:35:06 +0100
From:	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@...hfloor.at>,
	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>
Subject: Re: .version keeps being updated

> 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.

objcopy -j .rodata.uts -O binary vmlinux >(the-checker-script)


Segher

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