kconfig: move .kernelrelease
This moves the .kernelrelease file into include/config directory. Remove its
generation from the config step, if the config step doesn't leave a proper
.config behind, it triggers a call to silentoldconfig. Instead its generation
can be done via proper dependencies.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4b996c8..3c55de9 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -309,8 +309,8 @@
-fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common
AFLAGS := -D__ASSEMBLY__
-# Read KERNELRELEASE from .kernelrelease (if it exists)
-KERNELRELEASE = $(shell cat .kernelrelease 2> /dev/null)
+# Read KERNELRELEASE from include/config/kernel.release (if it exists)
+KERNELRELEASE = $(shell cat include/config/kernel.release 2> /dev/null)
KERNELVERSION = $(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)
export VERSION PATCHLEVEL SUBLEVEL KERNELRELEASE KERNELVERSION \
@@ -406,7 +406,6 @@
config %config: scripts_basic outputmakefile FORCE
$(Q)mkdir -p include/linux include/config
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=scripts/kconfig $@
- $(Q)$(MAKE) -C $(srctree) KBUILD_SRC= .kernelrelease
else
# ===========================================================================
@@ -714,7 +713,7 @@
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$@
# Build the kernel release string
-# The KERNELRELEASE is stored in a file named .kernelrelease
+# 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
@@ -748,9 +747,9 @@
localver-full = $(localver)$(localver-auto)
-# Store (new) KERNELRELASE string in .kernelrelease
+# Store (new) KERNELRELASE string in include/config/kernel.release
kernelrelease = $(KERNELVERSION)$(localver-full)
-.kernelrelease: FORCE
+include/config/kernel.release: include/config/auto.conf FORCE
$(Q)rm -f $@
$(Q)echo $(kernelrelease) > $@
@@ -771,7 +770,7 @@
# and if so do:
# 1) Check that make has not been executed in the kernel src $(srctree)
# 2) Create the include2 directory, used for the second asm symlink
-prepare3: .kernelrelease
+prepare3: include/config/kernel.release
ifneq ($(KBUILD_SRC),)
@echo ' Using $(srctree) as source for kernel'
$(Q)if [ -f $(srctree)/.config -o -d $(srctree)/include/config ]; then \
@@ -834,7 +833,7 @@
)
endef
-include/linux/version.h: $(srctree)/Makefile .config .kernelrelease FORCE
+include/linux/version.h: $(srctree)/Makefile include/config/kernel.release FORCE
$(call filechk,version.h)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -930,7 +929,7 @@
MRPROPER_DIRS += include/config include2
MRPROPER_FILES += .config .config.old include/asm .version .old_version \
include/linux/autoconf.h include/linux/version.h \
- .kernelrelease Module.symvers tags TAGS cscope*
+ Module.symvers tags TAGS cscope*
# clean - Delete most, but leave enough to build external modules
#
@@ -1253,8 +1252,8 @@
$(PERL) $(src)/scripts/checkstack.pl $(ARCH)
kernelrelease:
- $(if $(wildcard .kernelrelease), $(Q)echo $(KERNELRELEASE), \
- $(error kernelrelease not valid - run 'make *config' to update it))
+ $(if $(wildcard include/config/kernel.release), $(Q)echo $(KERNELRELEASE), \
+ $(error kernelrelease not valid - run 'make prepare' to update it))
kernelversion:
@echo $(KERNELVERSION)
