linux-kernel - .version keeps being updated

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Message-Id: <20070109102057.c684cc78.khali@linux-fr.org>
Date:	Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:20:57 +0100
From:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Kai Germaschewski <kai@...maschewski.name>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: .version keeps being updated

Hi all,

Since 2.6.20-rc1 or so, running "make" always builds a new kernel with
an incremented version number, whether there has actually been any
change done to the code or configuration or not. This increases the
build time quite a bit.

I've tracked it down to include/linux/compile.h always being updated,
and this is because .version is updated. I couldn't find what is
causing .version to be updated each time though. Can anybody help
there? Was this change made on purpose or is this a bug which we should
fix?

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
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