From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264503AbTDPQyB (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:54:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264502AbTDPQxo (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:53:44 -0400 Received: from CPE0080c8c9b431-CM014280010574.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([24.114.72.97]:1552 "EHLO stargate.coplanar.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264503AbTDPQxS (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:53:18 -0400 Message-ID: <005901c3043a$ccc431d0$7c07a8c0@kennet.coplanar.net> From: "Jeremy Jackson" To: , References: <20030416020059.GA27314@zuul.cca.cpqcorp.net> Subject: Re: How to identify contents of /lib/modules/* Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 13:08:28 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org You should definitely mention this to your distribution creator. IMHO, it's seriously broken if uname -r isn't distinct. Debian is unfortunately a victim of this; I have modded my kernel-image source package to *fix* it. I don't recall RedHat having this problem, but other RPM based I don't know. Can you say what your distro is? Cheers, Jeremy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Cameron" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 10:00 PM Subject: How to identify contents of /lib/modules/* > > Hi, here's a problem I'm having, perhaps someone has some smart idea... > > A certain major linux distribution distributes a number of binary > kernels, errata kernels, which all report the exact same thing > via "uname -r". These kernels may differ by only a little > (only the .config file is different in some small way) or by > a lot (binary drivers for one don't work (panic) on another).