[Patch] makefile: not need to regenerate kernel.release file when make kernelrelease

Amerigo Wang
2010-08-20T09:36:56Z

Brice reported that 'kernelrelease' has a dependence on include/config/kernel.release,
causes this file to be regenerated every time when invoke it. It doesn't have to.

Reported-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
Tested-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>

---
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f3bdff8..25da252 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1408,8 +1408,8 @@ checkstack:
$(OBJDUMP) -d vmlinux $$(find . -name '*.ko') | \
$(PERL) $(src)/scripts/checkstack.pl $(CHECKSTACK_ARCH)

-kernelrelease: include/config/kernel.release
- @echo $(KERNELRELEASE)
+kernelrelease:
+ @echo "$(KERNELVERSION)$$($(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/setlocalversion $(srctree))"

kernelversion:
@echo $(KERNELVERSION)