From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932874AbaJVUfN (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:35:13 -0400 Received: from cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.166.230]:42980 "EHLO cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932812AbaJVUfJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:35:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:35:07 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Michal Marek Cc: LKML , Masahiro Yamada , Peter Foley , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Fix output of make kernelrelease Message-ID: <20141022163507.6e2162d1@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <20141022194408.GA20989@pobox.suse.cz> References: <20141022101944.70d637cc@gandalf.local.home> <20141022194408.GA20989@pobox.suse.cz> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.24; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.130:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 21:44:08 +0200 Michal Marek 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