Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:33:24 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: .version keeps being updated |
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On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Olaf Hering wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > 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..
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