Re: .version keeps being updated

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Which is why "__init" is wrong. It causes the linker to either put it at 
> the end of the thing (which would break the SuSE tool). Alternatively it 
> causes section mismatch problems ("init" and "const" don't work that well 
> together), in which case it might work, but only due to toolchain bugs.
> 
> Grr.

Does anybody have the silly SuSE kernel version tool, and could test that 
without the "__init" it all actually works?

		Linus
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