Hi Richard,
On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 4:54 PM Richard Purdie
wrote:
> I get very nervous about patches like this that come in a day before
> the final release build.
Absolutely - I would too; I didn't realize a release was imminent &
certainly had no expectation this would be part of it.
> I'm not
The kernel_do_configure() task creates empty .scmversion files within
both the source & build directories. The presence of these files causes
the scm_version function within the kernel's scripts/setlocalversion to
always output the empty string, breaking the kernel's
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y func
Hi Martin & Bruce,
Thanks for your responses & filling in some of the background here.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 6:32 PM Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> Also note that in 2017 Trevor Woerner tried exactly the same fix that
> you are doing, but ended up retracting it when he found a test case
> that was st
The kernel_do_configure() function creates empty .scmversion files
within both the source & build directories. The presence of these files
causes the scm_version function within the kernel's
scripts/setlocalversion to always output the empty string, breaking the
kernel's CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y
