Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Fix output of make kernelrelease

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 21:44:08 +0200
Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dne 22.10.2014 v 16:19 Steven Rostedt napsal(a):
> > 
> > Commit 7ff525712acf "kbuild: fake the "Entering directory ..." message
> > more simply" changed the output of "make kernelrelease" such that the
> > kernel release version was not the last line printed. This broke various
> > tools that would find the kernel release with "make kernelrelease | tail -1".
> 
> The cleaner and recommended (see recent make help) way is to use make -s:
> 
> $ make O=build -s kernelrelease
> 3.18.0-rc1+

Hmm, I see the help index was recently updated to include that.

Does this work with older kernels too? That's very important.

-- Steve
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