This is a temporary workaround added by commitf6e09b07cc
("kbuild: do not put .scmversion into the source tarball"). Since commit1cb86b6c31
("kbuild: save overridden KERNELRELEASE in include/config/kernel.release"), the user-supplied KERNELRELEASE is saved in include/config/kernel.release. Remove it again. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>