KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION is currently not documented but it is needed when rebuilding a kernel that should result in the identical binary. This is a brief documentation of KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx> --- Patch is against 4.0-rc6 (localversion-next is -next-20150402) Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt index 6466704..7ad01d9 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt @@ -213,6 +213,14 @@ UTS_VERSION definition (uname -v in the running kernel). The value has to be a string that can be passed to date -d. The default value is the output of the date command at one point during build. +KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION +-------------------------------------------------- +Setting this to an integer overrides the build version number used in the +UTS_VERSION definition (uname -v in the running kernel shown as e.g. #1). +The default value is set to 0 if .version does not yet exist and is +generated by incrementing the current value in .version by one if it +already exists. + KBUILD_BUILD_USER, KBUILD_BUILD_HOST -------------------------------------------------- These two variables allow to override the user@host string displayed during -- 1.7.10.4 -- 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