Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:35:07 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Fix output of make kernelrelease |
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 21:44:08 +0200 Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> wrote:
> Dne 22.10.2014 v 16:19 Steven Rostedt napsal(a): > > > > Commit 7ff525712acf "kbuild: fake the "Entering directory ..." message > > more simply" changed the output of "make kernelrelease" such that the > > kernel release version was not the last line printed. This broke various > > tools that would find the kernel release with "make kernelrelease | tail -1". > > The cleaner and recommended (see recent make help) way is to use make -s: > > $ make O=build -s kernelrelease > 3.18.0-rc1+
Hmm, I see the help index was recently updated to include that.
Does this work with older kernels too? That's very important.
-- Steve
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