Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Clean up and speed up the localversion logic

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 03:40:38PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> Now that we run scripts/setlocalversion during every build, it makes
> sense to move all the localversion logic there. This cleans up the
> toplevel Makefile and also makes sure that the script is called only
> once in 'make prepare' (previously, it would be called every time due to
> a variable expansion in an ifneq statement). No user-visible change is
> intended, unless one runs the setlocalversion script directly.
> 
> Reported-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
> Cc: Nico Schottelius <nico-linuxsetlocalversion@schottelius.org>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
> ---
> 
> I tried to test this in various scenarios, but if anyone of you could give
> it a try, that would be great. The patch is against 2.6.35-rc3.
> 

Seems to be working for me, I do not need to go and fetch coffee while
installig newly compiled kernel anymore.

Thanks for your help Michal.

-- 
Dmitry