On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:38:25AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > 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. thank you very much, Herbert > Eric
