5 files changed, 15 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b3dd9dbdc29e..22e322f1757c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -338,8 +338,9 @@ AFLAGS		:= -D__ASSEMBLY__
 
 # Read KERNELRELEASE from .kernelrelease (if it exists)
 KERNELRELEASE = $(shell cat .kernelrelease 2> /dev/null)
+KERNELVERSION = $(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)
 
-export  VERSION PATCHLEVEL SUBLEVEL KERNELRELEASE \
+export  VERSION PATCHLEVEL SUBLEVEL KERNELRELEASE KERNELVERSION \
         ARCH CONFIG_SHELL HOSTCC HOSTCFLAGS CROSS_COMPILE AS LD CC \
         CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP MAKE AWK GENKSYMS PERL UTS_MACHINE \
         HOSTCXX HOSTCXXFLAGS LDFLAGS_MODULE CHECK CHECKFLAGS
@@ -434,6 +435,7 @@ export KBUILD_DEFCONFIG
 config %config: scripts_basic outputmakefile FORCE
         $(Q)mkdir -p include/linux
         $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=scripts/kconfig $@
+        $(Q)$(MAKE) .kernelrelease
 
 else
 # ===========================================================================
@@ -784,12 +786,10 @@ endif
 localver-full = $(localver)$(localver-auto)
 
 # Store (new) KERNELRELASE string in .kernelrelease
-kernelrelease = \
-       $(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)$(localver-full)
+kernelrelease = $(KERNELVERSION)$(localver-full)
 .kernelrelease: FORCE
-        $(Q)rm -f .kernelrelease
-        $(Q)echo $(kernelrelease) > .kernelrelease
-        $(Q)echo "  Building kernel $(kernelrelease)"
+        $(Q)rm -f $@
+        $(Q)echo $(kernelrelease) > $@
 
 
 # Things we need to do before we recursively start building the kernel
@@ -899,7 +899,7 @@ define filechk_version.h
         )
 endef
 
-include/linux/version.h: $(srctree)/Makefile FORCE
+include/linux/version.h: $(srctree)/Makefile .config FORCE
         $(call filechk,version.h)
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -1302,9 +1302,10 @@ checkstack:
         $(PERL) $(src)/scripts/checkstack.pl $(ARCH)
 
 kernelrelease:
-        @echo $(KERNELRELEASE)
+        $(if $(wildcard .kernelrelease), $(Q)echo $(KERNELRELEASE), \
+        $(error kernelrelease not valid - run 'make *config' to update it))
 kernelversion:
-        @echo $(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)
+        @echo $(KERNELVERSION)
 
 # FIXME Should go into a make.lib or something 
 # ===========================================================================
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
index ccd45130c482..b0cbbe2e41bb 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ int conf_write(const char *name)
                 if (!out_h)
                         return 1;
         }
-        sym = sym_lookup("KERNELRELEASE", 0);
+        sym = sym_lookup("KERNELVERSION", 0);
         sym_calc_value(sym);
         time(&now);
         env = getenv("KCONFIG_NOTIMESTAMP");
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c b/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c
index 9f5aabd58fa9..665bd5300a19 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ void init_main_window(const gchar * glade_file)
                                           NULL);
 
         sprintf(title, _("Linux Kernel v%s Configuration"),
-                getenv("KERNELRELEASE"));
+                getenv("KERNELVERSION"));
         gtk_window_set_title(GTK_WINDOW(main_wnd), title);
 
         gtk_widget_show(main_wnd);
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c b/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c
index d63d7fb677e4..7f973195e79a 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c
@@ -1051,7 +1051,7 @@ int main(int ac, char **av)
         conf_parse(av[1]);
         conf_read(NULL);
 
-        sym = sym_lookup("KERNELRELEASE", 0);
+        sym = sym_lookup("KERNELVERSION", 0);
         sym_calc_value(sym);
         sprintf(menu_backtitle, _("Linux Kernel v%s Configuration"),
                 sym_get_string_value(sym));
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c b/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c
index 69c2549c0baa..3d7877afccd5 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c
@@ -61,10 +61,10 @@ void sym_init(void)
         if (p)
                 sym_add_default(sym, p);
 
-        sym = sym_lookup("KERNELRELEASE", 0);
+        sym = sym_lookup("KERNELVERSION", 0);
         sym->type = S_STRING;
         sym->flags |= SYMBOL_AUTO;
-        p = getenv("KERNELRELEASE");
+        p = getenv("KERNELVERSION");
         if (p)
                 sym_add_default(sym, p);