Re: [PATCH 2/2] Makefile: "make kernelrelease" should show the correct full kernel version

Brice Goglin
2010-08-18T08:42:32Z

Le 18/08/2010 10:10, Cong Wang a écrit :
> On 08/18/10 15:15, Brice Goglin wrote:
>> This patch (actually 01ab17887 in 2.6.36-rc1) reveals what looks like a
>> problem to me: make kernelrelease always regenerates
>> include/config/kernel.release even if it's already more recent than
>> include/config/auto.conf. Is this the expected behavior? Do we really
>> need include/config/kernel.release to depend on FORCE?
>>
>
> I think so, because "LOCALVERSION=" can be given from command line,
> so we need to regenerate it.
>
> Or am I missing your point here?
>

Interesting. I assumed "make kernelrelease" was mainly here to display
the release string (which means you would not need write access to the
kernel build dir). And indeed make help says:
kernelrelease - Output the release version string
Right now, it looks like "update the version string and by the way
display it too" (and you need write access).

Brice