From 1ef988569051d47e990fe5bbea22fb9b64152098 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Robert P. J. Day" Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:38:19 -0400 Subject: kbuild: correct and clarify versioning info in Makefile The attached patch clarifies the creation of KERNELRELEASE and corrects an error regarding the use of $(LOCALVERSION). Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg --- Makefile | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'Makefile') diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 13bc589c605..241fed3a74a 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -760,12 +760,34 @@ $(vmlinux-dirs): prepare scripts $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$@ # Build the kernel release string -# The KERNELRELEASE is stored in a file named include/config/kernel.release -# to be used when executing for example make install or make modules_install # -# Take the contents of any files called localversion* and the config -# variable CONFIG_LOCALVERSION and append them to KERNELRELEASE. -# LOCALVERSION from the command line override all of this +# The KERNELRELEASE value built here is stored in the file +# include/config/kernel.release, and is used when executing several +# make targets, such as "make install" or "make modules_install." +# +# The eventual kernel release string consists of the following fields, +# shown in a hierarchical format to show how smaller parts are concatenated +# to form the larger and final value, with values coming from places like +# the Makefile, kernel config options, make command line options and/or +# SCM tag information. +# +# $(KERNELVERSION) +# $(VERSION) eg, 2 +# $(PATCHLEVEL) eg, 6 +# $(SUBLEVEL) eg, 18 +# $(EXTRAVERSION) eg, -rc6 +# $(localver-full) +# $(localver) +# localversion* (all localversion* files) +# $(CONFIG_LOCALVERSION) (from kernel config setting) +# $(localver-auto) (only if CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is set) +# ./scripts/setlocalversion (SCM tag, if one exists) +# $(LOCALVERSION) (from make command line if provided) +# +# Note how the final $(localver-auto) string is included *only* if the +# kernel config option CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is selected. Also, at the +# moment, only git is supported but other SCMs can edit the script +# scripts/setlocalversion and add the appropriate checks as needed. nullstring := space := $(nullstring) # end of line -- cgit v1.2.3