On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 18:50 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > What crud. I'm even slightly inclined to just let SLES9 be broken, just to > > let people know how unacceptable it is to look for strings in kernel > > binaries. But sadly, I don't think the poor users should be penalized for > > some idiotic SLES developers bad taste. > > SLES7 or SLES11 is not any different than SLES9 in that respect. > Suppose I send you some random vmlinux binary. How do you (you as in linus.sh) > know what 'uname -r' is inside this binary? > There are surely many many ways to pass that info. Having a string like > 'Linux version 2.6.19-g9202f325-dirty' somewhere in the binary is the > most reliable one. Dont you agree?
it's for sure the most ugly one. I could see the use of having modinfo work on the vmlinux, and have the vmlinux have a VERMAGIC as well. It's only a simple elf section after all, and a heck of a lot more defined and standard... -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
