Re: 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least)

[Olaf Hering]

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?
Just think about it for a minute.
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