[PATCH] kbuild: automatically append a short string to the version based upon the...

[linux-2.6-block.git] / init / Kconfig

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index eb86972be1c23d0148fa552dca01543d1201d6a8..f27fc48c1fdc80039d59d47f3e4c02c2e6fdad67 100644 (file)
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -77,6 +77,22 @@ config LOCALVERSION
          object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
          be a maximum of 64 characters.
 
+config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
+       bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
+       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.
+
+         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
+         appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
+         set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION
+
+         Note: This requires Perl, and a git repository, but not necessarily
+         the git or cogito tools to be installed.
+
 config SWAP
        bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
        depends on MMU