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

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Dec 11 2006 - 14:42:45 EST




On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
>
> I am afraid to report that this second version also fails for me, as you point
> out CIFS can break us if defined.

Olaf, will you admit that the SLES9 code is crap now?

Andy, does just replacing the "__initdata" with "const" fix it for you?
That should hopefully mean that IN PRACTICE the Linux version string will
be the first one to be triggered, if only because init/main.c is linked
reasonably early, and all the other "Linux version" strings will hopefully
be in the same rodata section.

Sad, sad. We shouldn't need to work around tools that are so _obviously_
broken like this.

Linus
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