Re: Issue with upgrade path from include/linux/version.h to uapi

[David Howells]

Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This leads to very unfortunate consequences for any user relying on
> version.h to expose the kernel version accurately, since the old "stale"
> kernel version will be seen by the build.
> 
> Sadly, make clean does not even take care of removing this stale file.

I wonder if a simple approach would work - just add:

	$(shell rm include/linux/version.h)

to an appropriate header, perhaps the top-level Makefile.

Failing that, it might be worth adding it to the make-clean list.

David
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