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>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

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