Re: kbuild: Support LOCALVERSION

[Sam Ravnborg]

> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> This allows one to put a short string in localversion identifying this
>> particular configuration "-smpacpi", or to identify applied patches
>> to the source "-llat-np".
>>
>> More specifically:
>> $(srctree)/localversion-lowlatency contains "-llat"
>> $(srctree)/localversion-scheduler-nick constins "-np"
>>
>> $(objtree)/localversion contains "-smpacpi"
>>
>> Resulting KERNELRELEASE would be:
>> 2.6.8.rc1-smpacpi-llat-np
>
> Wouldn't it make more sense the other way around (i.e. first append
> $(srctree)/localversion-*, then append $(objtree)/localversion*)?
>
> Hmm, from a second thought the order depends on what your most interested
> in:
> building kernels with different configs, or building kernels from
> different
> sources.
>
My rationale was that the config used would vary more than the source.
I also thought about sorting the files - but if Andrew for example
start using this it would maybe come in the middle.
Therefore this more simple approach.

   Sam


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