[PATCH 1/4] kbuild: remove VERSION and PATCHLEVEL from $(objtree)/Makefile

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Tue Sep 18 2018 - 04:46:24 EST


Neither VERSION nor PATCHLEVEL is used in any useful way.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Makefile | 3 +--
scripts/mkmakefile | 6 ------
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d2976b5..6e1a059 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -482,8 +482,7 @@ PHONY += outputmakefile
outputmakefile:
ifneq ($(KBUILD_SRC),)
$(Q)ln -fsn $(srctree) source
- $(Q)$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/mkmakefile \
- $(srctree) $(objtree) $(VERSION) $(PATCHLEVEL)
+ $(Q)$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/mkmakefile $(srctree) $(objtree)
endif

ifeq ($(cc-name),clang)
diff --git a/scripts/mkmakefile b/scripts/mkmakefile
index e19d656..e2106444 100755
--- a/scripts/mkmakefile
+++ b/scripts/mkmakefile
@@ -7,9 +7,6 @@
# Usage
# $1 - Kernel src directory
# $2 - Output directory
-# $3 - version
-# $4 - patchlevel
-

test ! -r $2/Makefile -o -O $2/Makefile || exit 0
# Only overwrite automatically generated Makefiles
@@ -25,9 +22,6 @@ fi
cat << EOF > $2/Makefile
# Automatically generated by $0: don't edit

-VERSION = $3
-PATCHLEVEL = $4
-
lastword = \$(word \$(words \$(1)),\$(1))
makedir := \$(dir \$(call lastword,\$(MAKEFILE_LIST)))

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2.7.4