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

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>]

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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