Subject: Re: Version string
From: Brian Lauer <brian@lauer.com>
To: Aaron Macks <aaronm@cs.brandeis.edu.ml.to>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
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Date: 20 Jun 2002 17:59:11 -0700
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Edit the top level Makefile. Look for the lines that read:

VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 4
SUBLEVEL = 9
EXTRAVERSION =-xfs

KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)

Changing those values and rebuilding the kernel with change the result
of a uname -r.

brian.


On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 17:58, Aaron Macks wrote:
> This may be a bit OT, but how does one change the version string 
> returned by the kernel, for example with uname?  I want to install a 
> modified kernel, but have it see a different module directory, so I 
> can play with using XFS and no ramdisk
> thanks
> Aaron
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