Re: kernel or syskold not supporting flavours
Hi,
>>"Yann" == Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> writes:
Yann> Manoj Srivastava writes:
>> The only program that looks for System.map and also looks for
>> LINUX_VERSION_CODE (the number) is klogd, AFAIK. And there is a
>> workaround for that. Does that solve this issue?
Yann> It seems to me that the reason is just that System.map includes
Yann> this numeric version instead of the string. But I can't figure
Yann> out why it is so ?
Umm, the reason for what? (I am confused). Since klogd does
not have access to the System.map file, (we are talking about how
klogd discovers where the System.map file is, corrrect?), the
contents of the System.map file should not have a bearing on this.
If you are asking why only the numeric version is in
System.map; I do not know (after all, without flavours [which
Linus does not support {yet?}], both the version numbers are
identical).
The UTS_RELEASE macros seems only used for human friendly
output by the kernel ...
As it stands, the Flavours hack does allow one to keep
multiple flavours of the same kernel version simultaneously on ones
machine, and to switch back and forth using a boot manager, and even
have klogd work with it.
Is that not an accurate assesment?
manoj
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