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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:10:36 +0800
From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
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To: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Makefile: "make kernelrelease" should show the correct
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On 08/18/10 15:15, Brice Goglin wrote:
> This patch (actually 01ab17887 in 2.6.36-rc1) reveals what looks like a
> problem to me: make kernelrelease always regenerates
> include/config/kernel.release even if it's already more recent than
> include/config/auto.conf. Is this the expected behavior? Do we really
> need include/config/kernel.release to depend on FORCE?
>

I think so, because "LOCALVERSION=" can be given from command line,
so we need to regenerate it.

Or am I missing your point here?

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