Re: kernel or syskold not supporting flavours

[joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de (Martin Schulze)]

Yann Dirson writes:

[cc to the sysklogd list]

>  > On Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 11:08:42AM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:
>  > 
>  > > [for a kernel with $(uname -r)=="2.0.33-std"]
>  > 
>  > What's this?  I never saw it before.  I'm sure this breaks klogd.
> 
> It comes from a patch by Manoj. You'll find it and its description in
> /usr/doc/kernel-package/Flavours.gz (Package: kernel-package)
> 
> It appears that the kernel always uses as a version string the one
> built in the top Makefile, so it seems so far to be perfectly safe to
> all (post 2.0 at least) kernels.
> 
> This is the string returned by $(uname -r).  I don't know how klogd
> gets its version string, but it should probably do this like uname
> does, for system consistency.

klogd gets his information through uname, too:

        if ( uname(&utsname) < 0 )
        {
                Syslog(LOG_ERR, "Cannot get kernel version information.");
                return(0);
        }

Aferwords a special file is about to be opened:

                sprintf (symfile, "%s-%s", *mf, utsname.release);

Does utsname contain that 'flavour'?

I'm not sure which error we receive but I suppose there is just
another source of problems:  Linus has encoded the kernel version
in the System.map.  Does your kernel flavour reflect this?

Look at your System.map and look for 'Version_'.  You should
probably find something like:

	001ab97c D Version_131105

which reflects kernel 2.0.33.

> Note: I suggested to Manoj to submit this patch to Linus, I'm not sure
> if he finally did.

I don't think that he would include it.  He's even not going to include
my MODPATH patch which makes it possible not to install the modules
beneath /lib/modules but somewhere else which is very important if
you're compiling for other machines.

Regards,

	Joey

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