Linus Torvalds 8993780a6e Make SLES9 "get_kernel_version" work on the kernel binary again ... As reported by Andy Whitcroft, at least the SLES9 initrd build process depends on getting the kernel version from the kernel binary. It does that by simply trawling the binary and looking for the signature of the "linux_banner" string (the string "Linux version " to be exact. Which is really broken in itself, but whatever..) That got broken when the string was changed to allow /proc/version to change the UTS release information dynamically, and "get_kernel_version" thus returned "%s" (see commit a2ee8649ba: "[PATCH] Fix linux banner utsname information"). This just restores "linux_banner" as a static string, which should fix the version finding. And /proc/version simply uses a different string. To avoid wasting even that miniscule amount of memory, the early boot string should really be marked __initdata, but that just causes the same bug in SLES9 to re-appear, since it will then find other occurrences of "Linux version " first. Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Acked-by: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Cc: Steve Fox <drfickle@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>		2006-12-11 11:34:11 -08:00
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calibrate.c	[PATCH] Platform SMIs and their interferance with tsc based delay calibration	2005-06-23 09:45:08 -07:00
do_mounts_initrd.c	[PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h	2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
do_mounts_md.c	[PATCH] md: remove MAX_MD_DEVS which is an arbitrary limit	2006-10-03 08:04:18 -07:00
do_mounts_rd.c	[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the init code	2006-06-26 12:25:05 -07:00
do_mounts.c	[PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]	2006-09-30 20:52:31 +02:00
do_mounts.h	Remove all inclusions of <linux/config.h>	2006-10-04 03:38:54 -04:00
initramfs.c	[PATCH] Make initramfs printk a warning on incorrect cpio type	2006-12-07 08:39:36 -08:00
Kconfig	[PATCH] io-accounting: core statistics	2006-12-10 09:55:41 -08:00
main.c	Make SLES9 "get_kernel_version" work on the kernel binary again	2006-12-11 11:34:11 -08:00
Makefile	[PATCH] Fix linux banner utsname information	2006-12-08 08:28:37 -08:00
version.c	Make SLES9 "get_kernel_version" work on the kernel binary again	2006-12-11 11:34:11 -08:00