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Commit 6e5a5420 authored by Robert P. J. Day's avatar Robert P. J. Day Committed by Sam Ravnborg
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kbuild: clarify the creation of the LOCALVERSION_AUTO string. 



Clarify the creation of the LOCALVERSION_AUTO string during kernel
configuration, and fix a couple typoes while we're there.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
parent eda890af

init/Kconfig

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@@ -80,16 +80,20 @@ config LOCALVERSION_AUTO 
	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.

	  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

	  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

	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.



	  Note: This requires Perl, and a git repository, but not necessarily

	  the git or cogito tools to be installed.

	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced

	  by running the command:



	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD



	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)



config SWAP

	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"