Running make install over sshfs is painful now

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

Hi,

With the following commit running "make modules_install install" over
sshfs (and I suppose nfs) is extremely painful:

commit fb994ecc2b1c214951366c2ba5d8b121f0010d1f
Author: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Date:   Wed May 5 10:41:44 2010 -0700

    kbuild: Fix checking of scm-identifier variable
    
    I'm looking Makefile in the -mm branch (dated 2010-04-28-16-53) and
    seeing what looks like a bug in the checking of scm-identifier.  The
    "ifneq ($scm-identifier)" seems to always execute "ifeq
    ($(LOCALVERSION,)) ...".  This patch fixes the checking of
    scm-identifier.
    
    Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
    Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

I compile my kernel on my workstation and then mount working tree over
sshfs and install on my laptop over wireless. It worked well for the
last few years but the latest changeset slows this process down to a
crawl - traversing git repository over the network is not the fastest
process out there. Any cfhance we could generate the tag at compile time
as opposed to install time?

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry