Minki/linux
1
0
Fork 1
mirror of https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git synced 2024-11-22 12:11:40 +00:00
Code Issues Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

kbuild: clarify the creation of the LOCALVERSION_AUTO string.

Browse Source 
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>
This commit is contained in:
Robert P. J. Day 2007-05-01 23:08:11 +02:00 committed by Sam Ravnborg
parent eda890af79
commit 6e5a5420b7
1 changed files with 10 additions and 6 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

16
init/Kconfig
View File

@ -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)"