On Dec 11 2006 08:44, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> Please revert this change.
>
>Well, that "get_kernel_version" is definitely buggered, and should be
>fixed. And we do want the new behaviour for /proc/version.
>
>So I don't think we should revert it, but we should:
>
> - strongly encourage "get_kernel_version" users to just stop using that
> crap. Ask the build system for the version instead or something, don't
> expect to dig it out of the binary (if you create an RPM for any other
> package, you sure as _hell_ don't start doing strings on the binary and
> try to figure out what the kernel is - you do it as part of the build)
>
>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.
If you fix it now, it will anyhow only be fixed for >= 2.6.20, hence
you don't break current/older SLES kernel builds.
-`J'
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