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Commit: 6e5a5420b7cdac356efbdc7832e90a805670b889
Parent: eda890af7959a79ab10a7a8ae979dadcdba41c58
Author: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AuthorDate: Tue May 1 23:08:11 2007 +0200
Committer: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CommitDate: Wed May 2 20:58:11 2007 +0200
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
init/Kconfig | 16 ++++++++++------
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index b170aa1..29d9e47 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)"
-
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