1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass
index 4bce64cf6a..271ce6c473 100644
--- a/meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass
@@ -618,6 +618,7 @@ 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() {
@@ -639,7 +640,10 @@ kernel_do_configure() {
         # $ scripts/setlocalversion . => +
         # $ make kernelversion => 2.6.37
         # $ make kernelrelease => 2.6.37+
-        touch ${B}/.scmversion ${S}/.scmversion
+        if [ ! -e ${B}/.scmversion -a ! -e ${S}/.scmversion ]; then
+                echo ${KERNEL_LOCALVERSION} > ${B}/.scmversion
+                echo ${KERNEL_LOCALVERSION} > ${S}/.scmversion
+        fi
 
         if [ "${S}" != "${B}" ] && [ -f "${S}/.config" ] && [ ! -f "${B}/.config" ]; then
                 mv "${S}/.config" "${B}/.config"