On Mon, Dec 11, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Olaf Hering wrote:
> >
> > Hmm, even moving this to linux_banner doesnt work, just because
> > __initdata is in a different section.
>
> Heh. Let's just change the "version_read_proc" string to not trigger.
>
> Something like this instead (which replaces the "Linux" with "%s" in
> /proc, and just takes it from "utsname()->sysname" instead. So now you can
> lie and call yourself "OS X" in your virtual partition if you want to ;)
Yes, that works. Thanks.
And if I'm really bored, I will dig up the reason why the very same
binary has to identify itself with different kernelreleases.
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