linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] Makefile: "make kernelrelease" should show the correct full kernel version

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <4C6B9BFE.1030308@inria.fr>
Date:	Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:38:22 +0200
From:	Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@...ia.fr>
To:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
CC:	Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@...ia.fr>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Makefile: "make kernelrelease" should show the correct
 full kernel version

Le 18/08/2010 10:10, Cong Wang a écrit :
> On 08/18/10 15:15, Brice Goglin wrote:
>> This patch (actually 01ab17887 in 2.6.36-rc1) reveals what looks like a
>> problem to me: make kernelrelease always regenerates
>> include/config/kernel.release even if it's already more recent than
>> include/config/auto.conf. Is this the expected behavior? Do we really
>> need include/config/kernel.release to depend on FORCE?
>>
>
> I think so, because "LOCALVERSION=" can be given from command line,
> so we need to regenerate it.
>
> Or am I missing your point here?
>

Interesting. I assumed "make kernelrelease" was mainly here to display
the release string (which means you would not need write access to the
kernel build dir). And indeed make help says:
  kernelrelease      - Output the release version string
Right now, it looks like "update the version string and by the way
display it too" (and you need write access).

Brice
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/