Hi, In scripts/setlocalversion under linux kernel tree, the scripts seems a little strange. # scm version string if not at a tagged commit if test "$CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO" = "y"; then # full scm version string res="$res$(scm_version)" else # append a plus sign if the repository is not in a clean # annotated or signed tagged state (as git describe only # looks at signed or annotated tags - git tag -a/-s) and # LOCALVERSION= is not specified if test "${LOCALVERSION+set}" != "set"; then scm=$(scm_version --short) res="$res${scm:++}" fi fi LOCALVERSION isn't assigned in any place. Only CONFIG_LOCALVERSION can be assigned in .config file. Why do we need to check LOCALVERSION at here? Thanks Haojian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html