These patches make it easy to determine the kernel version from a compressed binary by scanning for the Linux banner string in the uncompressed portion of bzImage.
Petr Tesarik (2): init: Separate banner from init_uts_ns s390: add Linux banner to the compressed image arch/s390/boot/compressed/Makefile | 1 + init/Makefile | 2 +- init/banner.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ init/version.c | 10 ---------- 4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) create mode 100644 init/banner.c -- 2.16.4
