1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 05a75c4f5ce2..d5a1a1228fab 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
@@ -238,6 +254,8 @@ config CPUSETS
 
           Say N if unsure.
 
+source "usr/Kconfig"
+
 menuconfig EMBEDDED
         bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
         help
@@ -260,8 +278,8 @@ config KALLSYMS_ALL
         help
            Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
            OOPS messages.  Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
-           symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, and you
-           don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
+           symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them 
+           and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
 
            Say N.