On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 02:25:47PM -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > > > This patch puts the kernel version in the banner, on Linux, and also whether > > > > > or not it's tainted (providing it's a sufficiently recent kernel). Thanks > > > > > to Mike Harris for this patch (slightly altered to remove RH_CUSTOM, etc). > > > > > Please do not accept this Linux-specific hack of a patch; I merged it to > > > > Debian, > > > > and Mike asked me not to send it upstream. > > > > Granted, as the patch stands. However, I don't mind doing the minimal > > > fixing up for inclusion, as this information would be extremely useful in > > > some logs. > > > Feel free to make it more generic and include it - that would definitely be cool. > > Done. I opted to use uname(2) instead. This doesn't say anything about > Linux's "tainted" thingie, but Mike can send a patch to include it if he, > or anyone else, feels that strongly about it.
Yeah, I feel strongly about including it if uname->sysname, or whatever it's called (utsname?) is 'Linux' (or the lower-case equivalent). It's very, very handy in trying to track down the causes of certain video card driver bugs. ;) I'll send a patch in a couple of days. -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org - http://www.kde.org - http://www.freedesktop.org "Configurability is always the best choice when it's pretty simple to implement" -- Havoc Pennington, gnome-list
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