Herbert Poetzl <herbert at 13thfloor.at> writes: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 03:40:35PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Herbert Poetzl <herbert at 13thfloor.at> writes: >> >> > the linux banner needs some attention too, when I get >> > around, I'll send a patch for that ... >> >> In what sense? >> >> I have trouble seeing the banner printed at bootup as being problematic. > > was it removed from procfs after 2.6.19-rc6 > (/proc/version sorry, haven't checked yet) I see where you are coming from. Yes that is a potential issue, because ultimately that information is utsname information. Given that we don't allow any of that information to be changed currently that isn't a 2.6.19 issue. Given that it is a don't care as long as we generate the same string I don't see a problem with a patch to modify it, to track changes in the current uts namespace. Eric