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authorMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>2013-07-11 15:34:51 +0200
committerMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>2013-08-28 17:09:54 +0200
commit0d0e7718a9da789dec7932b7411ab16047540c4f (patch)
treefdc9b67e397376155296adb19ad2a67899b264dd /Makefile
parent4f9879f6c6454f255cb81b7a34dd35e355679f4b (diff)
downloadlinux-0d0e7718a9da789dec7932b7411ab16047540c4f.tar.gz
kbuild: Do not overwrite include/config/kernel.release needlessly
Use filechk to detect if the content changed or not.

Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'Makefile')
-rw-r--r--Makefile7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9262ba8da4f9..cf897763d98e 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -794,10 +794,13 @@ PHONY += $(vmlinux-dirs)
 $(vmlinux-dirs): prepare scripts
 	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$@
 
+define filechk_kernel.release
+	echo "$(KERNELVERSION)$$($(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/setlocalversion $(srctree))"
+endef
+
 # Store (new) KERNELRELEASE string in include/config/kernel.release
 include/config/kernel.release: include/config/auto.conf FORCE
-	$(Q)rm -f $@
-	$(Q)echo "$(KERNELVERSION)$$($(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/setlocalversion $(srctree))" > $@
+	$(call filechk,kernel.release)
 
 
 # Things we need to do before we recursively start building the kernel