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| author | Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> | 2007-05-01 23:08:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> | 2007-05-02 20:58:11 +0200 |
| commit | 6e5a5420b7cdac356efbdc7832e90a805670b889 (patch) | |
| tree | 44c560622e2eff6aa9e7f10d363ef24dc621344c /init | |
| parent | eda890af7959a79ab10a7a8ae979dadcdba41c58 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-6e5a5420b7cdac356efbdc7832e90a805670b889.tar.gz lwn-6e5a5420b7cdac356efbdc7832e90a805670b889.zip | |
kbuild: clarify the creation of the LOCALVERSION_AUTO string.
Clarify the creation of the LOCALVERSION_AUTO string during kernel
configuration, and fix a couple typoes while we're there.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 16 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index b170aa1d43bd..29d9e47ee0da 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -80,16 +80,20 @@ 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. - Note: This requires Perl, and a git repository, but not necessarily - the git or cogito tools to be installed. + (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced + by running the command: + + $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD + + which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) config SWAP bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" |