Add a comment string in include/utsrelease.h that it was generated by the top level Makefile. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx> --- This is no actual code change - compile-testing should thus do Compile tested with x86_64_defconfig Patch is against 4.3-rc6 (localversion-next is -next-20151022) Makefile | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 8823501..e433a01 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1017,7 +1017,8 @@ define filechk_utsrelease.h echo '"$(KERNELRELEASE)" exceeds $(uts_len) characters' >&2; \ exit 1; \ fi; \ - (echo \#define UTS_RELEASE \"$(KERNELRELEASE)\";) + (echo '/* Generated by top level Makefile */'; \ + echo \#define UTS_RELEASE \"$(KERNELRELEASE)\";) endef define filechk_version.h -- 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