Re: [PATCH] make kernelrelease

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:28:15PM -0800, Matt Mackall wrote:
> This patch makes it easy to programmatically get at the kernel
> makefile's idea of the kernel version from external scripts and
> makefiles with something like V=`make kernelrelease`.
> 
> Alternatives include parsing Makefile (errorprone and broken by things
> like localversion) and running the C preprocessor on version.h (which
> requires a) building version.h somewhere and b) is really ugly).
> 
> Index: l/Makefile
> ===================================================================
> --- l.orig/Makefile	2004-12-20 16:08:11.746716000 -0800
> +++ l/Makefile	2004-12-20 16:18:25.036696000 -0800
> @@ -1187,6 +1187,9 @@
>  	$(OBJDUMP) -d vmlinux $$(find . -name '*.ko') | \
>  	$(PERL) $(src)/scripts/checkstack.pl $(ARCH)
>  
> +kernelrelease:
> +	@echo $(KERNELRELEASE)
> +
>  # FIXME Should go into a make.lib or something 
>  # ===========================================================================

Applied - thanks.

	Sam
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