include/linux/version.h not updated (Was: SILO always tells it loadedkernel version 3.6.0)

From: Meelis Roos
Date: Thu Sep 26 2013 - 09:13:03 EST


Background: SILO bootloader on sparc64 tells it is loading 3.6.0 when
actually it is 3.12.0-rc2.

> On U10:
>
> ok boot
> Boot device: scsidisk File and args:
> SILO Version 1.4.14
> boot: test
> Allocated 64 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
> Uncompressing image...
> Loaded kernel version 3.6.0
>
> PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 'OBP 3.31.0 2001/07/25 20:36'
> PROMLIB: Root node compatible:
> Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
> Linux version 3.11.0-dirty (mroos@u10) (gcc version 4.6.4 (Debian 4.6.4-4) ) #47 Wed Sep 25 16:01:09 EEST 2013

SILO gets the version from struch HdrS in the image.

vmlinux contains HdrS^@^C^F^@, so ver_linux is 00 03 06 0 that is 3.6.0.
So it's in our image and silo is correct.

It seems to be LINUX_VERSION_CODE in head_64.S - maybe it is nor
recompiled? No, head_64.o is from yesterday.

grep -r for LINUX_VERSION_CODE results in different values:

./include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h:#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 199424
./include/linux/version.h:#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 198144

-rw-r--r-- 1 mroos mroos 97 Sep 20 21:56 include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 mroos mroos 97 Aug 10 2012 ./include/linux/version.h

As it happens, 198144 is the value from Aug 10 2012 and it happens to be
00030600 hex. Here is the culprit, we are not rebuilding
include/linux/version.h.

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Meelis Roos (mroos@xxxxxxxx)
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