Re: .version keeps being updated

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Roman Zippel wrote:
> 
> Unless the SuSE tool is completely stupid, it should actually work:
> 
> $ strings vmlinux | grep "Linux version"
> Linux version 2.6.20-rc3-git7 (roman@squid) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #7 SMP Wed Jan 10 14:20:10 CET 2007

How about you do

	git grep '".*Linux version .*"'

instead, and realize that it depends on your configuration option. Notably 
CIFS.

In short: __init is actually a real *BUG*.

		Linus
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