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@@ -77,6 +77,22 @@ config LOCALVERSION
object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
be a maximum of 64 characters.
+config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
+ bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
+ 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.
+
+ 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
+ appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
+ set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION
+
+ Note: This requires Perl, and a git repository, but not necessarily
+ the git or cogito tools to be installed.
+
config SWAP
bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
depends on MMU