Re: [PATCH 2/2] Makefile: "make kernelrelease" should show the correctfull kernel version

[Cong Wang]

On 08/18/10 16:38, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Le 18/08/2010 10:10, Cong Wang a écrit :
> > 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?
>
> Interesting. I assumed "make kernelrelease" was mainly here to display
> the release string (which means you would not need write access to the
> kernel build dir). And indeed make help says:
>    kernelrelease      - Output the release version string
> Right now, it looks like "update the version string and by the way
> display it too" (and you need write access).

I believe you will also need write access even without this patch,
if you compile a fresh kernel. So your assumption is not correct.

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