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| author | Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> | 2008-11-27 19:12:07 +0000 |
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| committer | John Rigby <john.rigby@linaro.org> | 2012-06-25 15:02:05 -0600 |
| commit | ee32f696cfd2dec5a88758fcf25ecc1a21cae402 (patch) | |
| tree | 2fafbadb98dec2a69105c08496f66c002b895268 /init | |
| parent | 2a812e41e6e45ae917e18f856d8191ccb4ea5d02 (diff) | |
UBUNTU: SAUCE: (no-up) version: Implement version_signature proc file.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Tim Gardener <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | init/version.c | 6 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index d07dcf9fc8a..8f46d1aae7d 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -214,6 +214,15 @@ config DEFAULT_HOSTNAME but you may wish to use a different default here to make a minimal system more usable with less configuration. +config VERSION_SIGNATURE + string "Arbitrary version signature" + help + This string will be created in a file, /proc/version_signature. It + is useful in determining arbitrary data about your kernel. For instance, + if you have several kernels of the same version, but need to keep track + of a revision of the same kernel, but not affect it's ability to load + compatible modules, this is the easiest way to do that. + config SWAP bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" depends on MMU && BLOCK diff --git a/init/version.c b/init/version.c index 86fe0ccb997..3a9433a39d2 100644 --- a/init/version.c +++ b/init/version.c @@ -40,7 +40,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_uts_ns); /* FIXED STRINGS! Don't touch! */ const char linux_banner[] = "Linux version " UTS_RELEASE " (" LINUX_COMPILE_BY "@" - LINUX_COMPILE_HOST ") (" LINUX_COMPILER ") " UTS_VERSION "\n"; + LINUX_COMPILE_HOST ") (" LINUX_COMPILER ") " UTS_VERSION +#ifdef CONFIG_VERSION_SIGNATURE + " (" CONFIG_VERSION_SIGNATURE ")" +#endif + "\n"; const char linux_proc_banner[] = "%s version %s" |