@@ -66,3 +66,10 @@ KERNEL_LD = "${CCACHE}${HOST_PREFIX}ld.bfd ${HOST_LD_KERNEL_ARCH}"
KERNEL_AR = "${CCACHE}${HOST_PREFIX}ar ${HOST_AR_KERNEL_ARCH}"
TOOLCHAIN ?= "gcc"
+# 6.3+ requires the variable LOCALVERSION to be set to not get a "+" in
+# the local version. Having it empty means nothing will be added, and any
+# value will be appended to the local kernel version. This replaces the
+# use of .scmversion file for setting a localversion without using
+# the CONFIG_LOCALVERSION option.
+KERNEL_LOCALVERSION ??= ""
+export LOCALVERSION ?= "${KERNEL_LOCALVERSION}"
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ do_compile_kernelmodules() {
if (grep -q -i -e '^CONFIG_MODULES=y$' ${B}/.config); then
oe_runmake -C ${B} ${PARALLEL_MAKE} modules ${KERNEL_EXTRA_ARGS}
- # Module.symvers gets updated during the
+ # Module.symvers gets updated during the
# building of the kernel modules. We need to
# update this in the shared workdir since some
# external kernel modules has a dependency on
@@ -614,7 +614,6 @@ do_shared_workdir () {
# We don't need to stage anything, not the modules/firmware since those would clash with linux-firmware
SYSROOT_DIRS = ""
-KERNEL_LOCALVERSION ??= ""
KERNEL_CONFIG_COMMAND ?= "oe_runmake_call -C ${S} O=${B} olddefconfig || oe_runmake -C ${S} O=${B} oldnoconfig"
python check_oldest_kernel() {
@@ -636,6 +635,9 @@ kernel_do_configure() {
# $ scripts/setlocalversion . => +
# $ make kernelversion => 2.6.37
# $ make kernelrelease => 2.6.37+
+ # See kernel-arch.bbclass for post v6.3 removal of the extra
+ # + in localversion. .scmversion is no longer used, and the
+ # variable LOCALVERSION must be used
if [ ! -e ${B}/.scmversion -a ! -e ${S}/.scmversion ]; then
echo ${KERNEL_LOCALVERSION} > ${B}/.scmversion
echo ${KERNEL_LOCALVERSION} > ${S}/.scmversion