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From: Jaap Boender <jaapb@kerguelen.org>
To: Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch>
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Subject: Re: patches and uname -a
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On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Roberto Nunnari wrote:

> Does anybody know how can you make uname report the
> real version? What if you recompile the kernel after
> patching the system? Would that do the trick?

As far as I know, uname gets the version information from the kernel.
So yes, if you recompile the kernel, you should be able to get the right
version displayed.

Yours,

   Jaap Boender