linux-kernel - Re: .version keeps being updated

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0701111424390.29801@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Date:	Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:27:59 +0100 (MET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
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)

For some reason that does not work.


  ../drivers/char$ objcopy -j .modinfo -O binary sonypi.ko 
  objcopy: stvfMiji: Permission denied

Why does it want to create a file there? This one works better:

  $ objcopy -j .modinfo -O binary sonypi.ko /dev/stdout

has more success.

	-`J'
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