From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 13:34:51 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: kbuild: Do not overwrite include/config/kernel.release needlessly
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~176^2~5390^2
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0d0e7718a9da789dec7932b7411ab16047540c4f;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

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>
---

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