Re: email-address embedded in homemade kernels
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I was wondering if it is possible to embed my email address into
> homegrown kernels. My current kernel greets me with
>
>
> Linux version 2.2.19pre6 (root@silver) ....
>
>
> but I would much prefer something like
>
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> Linux version 2.2.19pre6 (diego@biurrun.de) ....
>
>
> It's not a big deal of course, but it would sure be neat.
You can (and should) compile your kernels as a non-root user. This
will get your username in there (something like diego@silver). If
that's not good enough for you, then you can change
linux/arch/i386/setup.s to something that you like. In my kernel, you
would change line 727, but you can search for LINUX_COMPILE_HOST. If
you changed that to "biurrun.de", then you would get the desired
effect. Just be sure not to send Linus any patches with that. ;)
Cheers,
Chris
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