[PATCH] read EXTRAVERSION from file

[Christoph Hellwig]

The're an very interesting patch in the Debian tree still from the time
where Herbert Xu mentioned it, it allows creating a file .extraversion
in the toplevel kernel directory and the Makefile will set EXTRAVERSION
to it's contents.  This has the nice advantage of keeping an
extraversion pre-tree instead of having to patch the Makefile and
getting rejects everytime you pull a new tree (or BK refuses to touch
the Makefile).

The only thing I'm not fully comfortable is the .extraversion name, I
think I'd prefer a user-visible name.

Any other comments on this one?

--- kernel-source-2.6.6/Makefile	2004-05-10 19:47:45.000000000 +1000
+++ kernel-source-2.6.6-1/Makefile	2004-05-10 22:21:02.000000000 +1000
@@ -151,6 +151,9 @@
 
 export srctree objtree VPATH TOPDIR
 
+ifeq ($(EXTRAVERSION),)
+EXTRAVERSION := $(shell [ ! -f .extraversion ] || cat .extraversion)
+endif
 KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)
 
 # SUBARCH tells the usermode build what the underlying arch is.  That is set
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