1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index eb86972be1c..f27fc48c1fd 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -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