On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:40:42PM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:

 > > Yes, it's intended that the Cyclades-Z firmware version number
 > > show up in a what(1)...
 > 
 > I don't really feel that you answered any of the questions in my last
 > message, Jason. Why is it that, when in the past we have actively changed
 > files to avoid things like this showing up in what(1), this is different?
 > And who set this policy? Are we going to do this with other things? Using
 > what(1) to quickly identify a kernel becomes less and less useful the
 > more things like this that get added.

It's one thing to change source code files in our tree to eliminate the
SCCS magic sequence.  It's quite another to change a binary image that
is intended to be included unchanged in the kernel image.

 > No, it didn't occur to me. Does it checksum itself? I had a board at
 > one point; I don't recally if I put it in my Big Box o' Stuff that I
 > shipped to Japan. I'll check tonight.

I don't know -- I don't have the source code to the firmware.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>