linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH, v2] kbuild: Improve version string logic

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Message-ID: <20091015085905.GB10546@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:59:05 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>,
	Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@...radead.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, v2] kbuild: Improve version string logic


* David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, David Rientjes wrote:
> 
> > We could easily go with my suggestion of allowing "make LOCALVERSION=" to 
> > override all additions to the kernel version when CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO 
> > is disabled.  For such configurations, kernels would be built with this 
> > variable to specify how it's different from the vanilla version and would 
> > suppress the `+'.
> > 
> 
> The following patch implements this suggestion and folds both of my 
> proposed patches together.

thanks David!

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>

	Ingo
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