linux-kernel - [PATCH] Dixup sysname wrt recent cultural developments

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Date:   Thu, 1 Apr 2021 23:36:35 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Dixup sysname wrt recent cultural developments

It is apparent that emoji outbreak can not be contained.
In that case might as well embrace it.

Change main kernel banner, /proc/version and uname(2) output.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
---

 include/linux/uts.h |    2 +-
 init/version.c      |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/uts.h
+++ b/include/linux/uts.h
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  * Defines for what uname() should return 
  */
 #ifndef UTS_SYSNAME
-#define UTS_SYSNAME "Linux"
+#define UTS_SYSNAME "🐧"
 #endif
 
 #ifndef UTS_NODENAME
--- a/init/version.c
+++ b/init/version.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_uts_ns);
 
 /* FIXED STRINGS! Don't touch! */
 const char linux_banner[] =
-	"Linux version " UTS_RELEASE " (" LINUX_COMPILE_BY "@"
+	"🐧 version " UTS_RELEASE " (" LINUX_COMPILE_BY "@"
 	LINUX_COMPILE_HOST ") (" LINUX_COMPILER ") " UTS_VERSION "\n";
 
 const char linux_proc_banner[] =