Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750987AbWAOX3R (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:29:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750988AbWAOX3R (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:29:17 -0500 Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.86]:16113 "EHLO smtpout.mac.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750985AbWAOX3Q convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:29:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200601151526.34236.rene@exactcode.de> References: <200601151051.14827.rene@exactcode.de> <200601151312.42391.rene@exactcode.de> <20060115123133.GB15881@mars.ravnborg.org> <200601151526.34236.rene@exactcode.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Cc: Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Roman Zippel , akpm@osdl.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT From: Kyle Moffett Subject: Re: kbuild / KERNELRELEASE not rebuild correctly anymore Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:29:00 -0500 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Rebe?= X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1592 Lines: 45 On Jan 15, 2006, at 09:26, Ren? Rebe wrote: > Hi, > > On Sunday 15 January 2006 13:31, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >>> I'm curious, aside rsbac, what in the .config is altering the >>> KERNELRELEASE? >> >> CONFIG_LOCALVERSION >> CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO > > Ah, ok - I feared something less obviously more complex. Do we need > this options at all? People can still just edit the EXTRAVERSION > line in the Makefile - at least I always did so ... It makes it easy for people who build a lot of different kernel versions and patchsets with similar configs. When compiling a kernel for "aphrodite", I use my "config.aphrodite4" which has CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-aphrodite4". I may patch the kernel first with -mm or another patchset for testing which modify EXTRAVERSION, and with the localversion change I get the following kernels, depending only on patchset and my config: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-aphrodite4 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-mm4-aphrodite4 [...etc...] Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- Somone asked me why I work on this free (http://www.fsf.org/ philosophy/) software stuff and not get a real job. Charles Schulz had the best answer: "Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems? They do it because life wouldn't have any meaning for them if they didn't. That's why I draw cartoons. It's my life." -- Charles Schulz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/