Re: [PATCHv2] [KERNEL-DOC] kill warnings when building mandocs

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:19:32 +0200 Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de> wrote:

> +# get kernel version
> +sub get_kernel_version() {
> +    my $version;
> +    open (FILE, $ENV{"SRCTREE"}."Makefile") || die "Can't open main kernel Makefile: $!";
> +
> +    EOF: while (my $line = <FILE>)
> +    {
> +	if ($line =~ /VERSION\s+=\s+(\d+)/) {
> +	     $version .= $1;
> +	     next;
> +	}
> +	if ($line =~ /PATCHLEVEL\s+=\s+(\d+)/) {
> +	     $version .= ".$1";
> +	     next;
> +	}
> +	if ($line =~ /SUBLEVEL\s+=\s+(\d+)/) {
> +	     $version .= ".$1";
> +	     next;
> +	}
> +	if ($line =~ /EXTRAVERSION\s+=\s+(.*)$/) {
> +	     $version .= $1;
> +	     last EOF;
> +	}
> +    }
> +    return $version;
> +}

we already did this in the top-level Makefile.  It's in $(KERNELVERSION)
and is printed by `make kernelversion'.

Cannot we use that info somehow?