Re: make kernelrelease ignoring LOCALVERSION_AUTO

From: Uwe Zeisberger (zeisberg_at_informatik.uni-freiburg.de)
Date: 11/21/05

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    Date:	Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:53:53 +0100
To: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>

    James Cloos wrote:
    > I did a $(git-repack -a -d && git-prune-packed) before trying the bisect.
    >
    > I also found that $(make oldconfig; make kernelrelease) was enough to
    > bisect down to the commit in question.
    >
    > The final git bisect bad reported:
    >
    > ,---- :; git bisect bad
    > | ac4d5f74a9b243d9f3f123fe5ce609478df208d8 is first bad commit
    > | diff-tree ac4d5f74a9b243d9f3f123fe5ce609478df208d8 (from ab919c06144cfb11c05b5b5cd291daa96ac2e423)
    > | Author: Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
    > | Date: Wed Nov 9 15:54:08 2005 +0100
    > |
    > | [PATCH] kbuild: make kernelrelease in unconfigured kernel prints an error
    > |
    > | Do not include .config for target kernelrelease
    > |
    > | Signed-off-by: Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
    > | Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
    > |
    > | :100644 100644 2dac8010c14296bf71b20da92d7256d6a5b41f22 3152d6377eb20bb79a95850fabf7b6fee3a64ad2 M Makefile
    > `----
    >
    > Whatever the solution, it is commit ac4d5f74a9b243d9f3f123fe5ce609478df208d8
    > that breaks $(make kernelrelease).
    That's true, I recently realized that, too, but didn't find the time to
    react.

    In my eyes the solution has to be that .config is included iff it
    exists.

    I'll work out a patch and send it to you.

    Best regards
    Uwe 

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