From: nayobix@nayobix.org (Boyan Vladinov)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Append Localversion to Kernel String
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 09:27:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5831DD15.2020508@nayobix.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ1xhMVWvY=aKYQ6KtL7rX6AFQ5c-NhScXRp68dR=a+rQX-a-g@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Marco,
Wasn't this an eudyptula challenge task?
Thanks!
b.
On 6.10.2016 10:01, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Marco Gross <mgross@stephan-gmbh.com> wrote:
>> Hello folks,
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>> I?m trying to automatically append version information to my kernel?s version string.
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>> Therefore, I have in my .config following option:
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>> CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y
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>> Additionally, following is set:
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>> CONFIG_LOCALVERSION=?++?
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>> The output that is expected is said to be the first eight characters of the output of ?git rev-parse --verify HEAD?.
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>> The output in my kernel directory is:
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>> $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
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>> c8d2bc9bc39ebea8437fd974fdbc21847bb897a3
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>> After installing the kernel the name of the kernel is as follows:
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>> vmlinuz-4.8.0++
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>> I expected:
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>> vmlinuz-4.8.0++-gc8d2bc9b
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>> My question: Where is the version string that I expected?
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>>
>> Marco
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>> Mit freundlichen Gr??en / Best regards
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>> Marco Gross
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> The '+' character is appended when the contents of your git repository
> have been modified, but not committed.
>
> You want to either commit the changes you have made, and rebuild the
> kernel, or undo the changes to restore the original state of the tree.
>
> Hope this helps.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-06 9:26 Append Localversion to Kernel String Marco Gross
2016-10-06 17:01 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2016-11-20 17:27 ` Boyan Vladinov [this message]
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