Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:59:33 -0800 | | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] v4 kconfig: place git SHA1 in .config output if in SCM |
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On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 04:01:23PM +0100, Michal Marek wrote: > On 5.3.2010 20:43, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > This patch appends the localversion string to the Linux kernel version. > > For example, in a git tree with uncommitted changes, the .config file > > might start as follows (but with leading hash marks): > > > > Automatically generated make config: don't edit > > Linux kernel version: 2.6.33-01836-g90a6501-dirty > > Mon Mar 1 17:05:59 2010 > > > > The "-01836-g90a6501-dirty" string is added by this patch. > > kbuild in linux-next already has > commit 85a256d8e0116c8f5ad276730830f5d4d473344d > Author: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> > Date: Wed Jan 13 13:01:05 2010 -0800 > > kbuild: improve version string logic > > which results in a scripts/setlocalversion call during each build. And > with CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO, it stores exactly the string you want in > include/config/kernel.release. So we could change kconfig to read that > file instead of building the version string again. To also cover the > !CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO case, we can add a > include/config/kernel.release.full file to hold the full string each time. > > Sorry for jumping in so late in the discussion, I had a bit of backlog > in mail directed to me and linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, let alone LKML ;).
Thank you for the pointer, I will take a look.
Thanx, Paul
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