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From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: kai@germaschewski.name, sam@ravnborg.org
Subject: [PATCH] make kernelrelease
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:28:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041221002815.GD28322@waste.org> (raw)

This patch makes it easy to programmatically get at the kernel
makefile's idea of the kernel version from external scripts and
makefiles with something like V=`make kernelrelease`.

Alternatives include parsing Makefile (errorprone and broken by things
like localversion) and running the C preprocessor on version.h (which
requires a) building version.h somewhere and b) is really ugly).

Index: l/Makefile
===================================================================
--- l.orig/Makefile	2004-12-20 16:08:11.746716000 -0800
+++ l/Makefile	2004-12-20 16:18:25.036696000 -0800
@@ -1187,6 +1187,9 @@
 	$(OBJDUMP) -d vmlinux $$(find . -name '*.ko') | \
 	$(PERL) $(src)/scripts/checkstack.pl $(ARCH)
 
+kernelrelease:
+	@echo $(KERNELRELEASE)
+
 # FIXME Should go into a make.lib or something 
 # ===========================================================================
 


-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

             reply	other threads:[~2004-12-21  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-21  0:28 Matt Mackall [this message]
2004-12-28 21:52 ` [PATCH] make kernelrelease Sam Ravnborg

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