Re: .version keeps being updated

From: Segher Boessenkool
Date: Wed Jan 10 2007 - 18:35:49 EST


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.

objcopy -j .rodata.uts -O binary vmlinux >(the-checker-script)


Segher

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