Re: .version keeps being updated

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Jan 10 2007 21:02, Olaf Hering wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 10, Olaf Hering wrote:
>
>with such a change, it will always be first. Tested on powerpc.
>I could even add an ELF parser and look for the first bytes in the
>.rodata section.

With such a change, you would not need to grep for it. You could use
binutils on it. `objdump -sj .rodata.uts vmlinux` would be a start.
Maybe not the prettiest output, but guaranteed to contain only the
banner.


	-`J'
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