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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Tue, 2018-04-03 at 08:58 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 12:23 AM, Jonathan Liu <net147@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> > Set KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION=1 to avoid build version being incremented
> > on
> > every build. It is visible in the output of "cat /proc/version"
> > after
> > the hash character.
> It is possible that someone might actually want this feature, for
> debug or
> different build variants.
> 
> So this would be better as a variable that can be overridden.

Surely users can override it in this form (like the USER/HOST variants
already there)?

Cheers,

Richard