Re: kbuild / KERNELRELEASE not rebuild correctly anymore

[Kyle Moffett]

On Jan 15, 2006, at 09:26, René 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

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