Append Localversion to Kernel String

[Boyan Vladinov]

Hi Marco,

Wasn't this an eudyptula challenge task?

Thanks!
b.

On 6.10.2016 10:01, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Marco Gross <mgross at stephan-gmbh.com> wrote:
>> Hello folks,
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>> I’m trying to automatically append version information to my kernel’s version string.
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>> Therefore, I have in my .config following option:
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>> CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y
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>> Additionally, following is set:
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>> CONFIG_LOCALVERSION=”++”
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>> The output that is expected is said to be the first eight characters of the output of ‘git rev-parse --verify HEAD’.
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>> The output in my kernel directory is:
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>> $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
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>> c8d2bc9bc39ebea8437fd974fdbc21847bb897a3
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>> After installing the kernel the name of the kernel is as follows:
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>> vmlinuz-4.8.0++
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>> I expected:
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>> vmlinuz-4.8.0++-gc8d2bc9b
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>> My question: Where is the version string that I expected?
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>> Marco
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>> Marco Gross
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> The '+' character is appended when the contents of your git repository
> have been modified, but not committed.
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> You want to either commit the changes you have made, and rebuild the
> kernel, or undo the changes to restore the original state of the tree.
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> Hope this helps.
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