When KERNELRELEASE is overridden, include/config/kernel.release still stores the string would be returned by the script if KERNELRELEASE had not been overridden. This is not strange. include/config/kernel.release should store KERNELRELEASE that was used for building the kernel. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/setlocalversion | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/setlocalversion b/scripts/setlocalversion index 7c7cbefa5aa4..eff8cc831571 100755 --- a/scripts/setlocalversion +++ b/scripts/setlocalversion @@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ collect_files() echo "$res" } +if [ -n "${KERNELRELEASE}" ]; then + echo "${KERNELRELEASE}" + exit 0 +fi + if ! test -e include/config/auto.conf; then echo "Error: kernelrelease not valid - run 'make prepare' to update it" >&2 exit 1 -- 2.34.1