Re: [PATCH 0/2] v4 kconfig: place git SHA1 in .config output if in SCM

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 04:01:23PM +0100, Michal Marek wrote:
> On 5.3.2010 20:43, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > This patch appends the localversion string to the Linux kernel version.
> > For example, in a git tree with uncommitted changes, the .config file
> > might start as follows (but with leading hash marks):
> > 
> > 	Automatically generated make config: don't edit
> > 	Linux kernel version: 2.6.33-01836-g90a6501-dirty
> > 	Mon Mar  1 17:05:59 2010
> > 
> > The "-01836-g90a6501-dirty" string is added by this patch.
> 
> kbuild in linux-next already has
> commit 85a256d8e0116c8f5ad276730830f5d4d473344d
> Author: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> Date:   Wed Jan 13 13:01:05 2010 -0800
> 
>     kbuild: improve version string logic
> 
> which results in a scripts/setlocalversion call during each build. And
> with CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO, it stores exactly the string you want in
> include/config/kernel.release. So we could change kconfig to read that
> file instead of building the version string again. To also cover the
> !CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO case, we can add a
> include/config/kernel.release.full file to hold the full string each time.
> 
> Sorry for jumping in so late in the discussion, I had a bit of backlog
> in mail directed to me and linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, let alone LKML ;).

Thank you for the pointer, I will take a look.

							Thanx, Paul