Re: [PATCH] KCONFIG: Add some extra info regarding the kernellocalversion.

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 06:01:17 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >
> >   A small formatting fix, and add a few lines describing the origin of
> > the git-based "localversion" string for the kernel version.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> > index f977086..4d5aef6 100644
> > --- a/init/Kconfig
> > +++ b/init/Kconfig
> > @@ -80,13 +80,19 @@ config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
> >  	default y
> >  	help
> >  	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
> > -	  release tree by looking for git tags that
> > -	  belong to the current top of tree revision.
> > +	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
> > +	  top of tree revision.
> >
> >  	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
> > -	  if a git based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
> > +	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
> >  	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
> > -	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION
> > +	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.  (The actual string is the first eight
> > +	  characters produced by running the command:
> > +
> > +	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
> > +
> > +	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion", in case
> > +	  you were interested.)
>
> Please omit ", in case you were interested".

ok, will resubmit.

> >
> >  	  Note: This requires Perl, and a git repository, but not necessarily
> >  	  the git or cogito tools to be installed.
>
> How can this be the case since a 'git' command is used, according to
> your new documentation?

i have no idea why that last part says that -- that's not part of my
addition, it's the original text.  in fact, there's nothing about
scripts/setlocalversion that seems to require perl, so that last part
is *doubly* odd.

rday
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