Alan Cox wrote:
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:00:10PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Now that I know there are a few real users the only sane way to
proceed with deprecation is to push the time limit out to a year or
two work and work with distributions that have big testing pools like
fedora core to find these last remaining users.
Some early boot code needs to know the kernel version and
it needs to do it before /proc is mounted and potentially in order
to run mount. In places it has its role but only in places.
uname() provides the kernel version.
-hpa
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