Re: .version keeps being updated

From: Andy Whitcroft
Date: Wed Jan 10 2007 - 16:21:31 EST


Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> 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?

Sure, will do.

-apw
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