Re: kernel or syskold not supporting flavours
Manoj Srivastava writes:
> There is one place where the version/flavour is stored that
> gets translated to a number; in the other place it still is a string.
OK. AFAIKT from the kernel's code, this number is used to tell
individual parts of the kernel/drivers when the current version is
located before or after a change meaningful for that part.
> 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?
It seems to me that the reason is just that System.map includes this
numeric version instead of the string. But I can't figure out why it
is so ?
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