On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > > This patch puts the kernel version in the banner, on Linux, and also whether > > > > or not it's tainted (providing it's a sufficiently recent kernel). Thanks > > > > to Mike Harris for this patch (slightly altered to remove RH_CUSTOM, etc).
> > > Please do not accept this Linux-specific hack of a patch; I merged it to Debian, > > > and Mike asked me not to send it upstream. > > Granted, as the patch stands. However, I don't mind doing the minimal > > fixing up for inclusion, as this information would be extremely useful in > > some logs. > Feel free to make it more generic and include it - that would definitely be cool. Done. I opted to use uname(2) instead. This doesn't say anything about Linux's "tainted" thingie, but Mike can send a patch to include it if he, or anyone else, feels that strongly about it. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
