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    SubjectRe: .version keeps being updated


    On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Olaf Hering wrote:
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    > On Wed, Jan 10, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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    > > 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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