Hi Martin, On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:52:24 -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > I use it pretty commonly to answer the question "did I remember to install > > that new kernel I just built before I rebooted"? By comparing `uname -a' > > with $TOPDIR/.version. > > Yup, we need to do the same thing in automated testing. Especially when > you're doing lilo -R, and don't know if you ended up fscking or panicing > during attempted reboot to new kernel. > > Better would be a checksum of the vmlinux vs the running kernel text, > but that seems to be impossible due to code rewriting. Could we embed > a checksum in a little /proc file for this?
What would this allow that our current autoincrementing counter doesn't? -- Jean Delvare - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
