Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:56:59 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add ELF note with Linux version |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:36:21 +0100 > Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote: > > >> Bernhard Walle wrote: >> >>> This patch adds version information to the ELF kernel file. Together >>> with the bzImage version information, this allows distributions to >>> identify the kernel version based on the file name. >>> >>> >> Seems reasonable to me, but I think the macro could be just called >> "ELFNOTE". >> >> > > You removed Bernhard from the cc list. >
Didn't mean to... Oh, he has a "mail-followup-to" header which doesn't include himself...
> I'd like to know a little bit more about why this is needed, how it will be > used, etc. And given that this feature is intended to improve life for > distributors, it would be nice to get some feedback from the appropriate > persons.
Hm, yes. ELF notes don't appear in the bzImage, since it isn't an ELF file, so perhaps this doesn't satisfy the requirement. It would help to have more detail.
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