diff --git a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass
index 4bce64c..9c8036f 100644
--- a/poky/meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass
+++ b/poky/meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@
 
 EXTRA_OEMAKE += ' CC="${KERNEL_CC}" LD="${KERNEL_LD}" OBJCOPY="${KERNEL_OBJCOPY}"'
 EXTRA_OEMAKE += ' HOSTCC="${BUILD_CC}" HOSTCFLAGS="${BUILD_CFLAGS}" HOSTLDFLAGS="${BUILD_LDFLAGS}" HOSTCPP="${BUILD_CPP}"'
-EXTRA_OEMAKE += ' HOSTCXX="${BUILD_CXX}" HOSTCXXFLAGS="${BUILD_CXXFLAGS}" PAHOLE=false'
+EXTRA_OEMAKE += ' HOSTCXX="${BUILD_CXX}" HOSTCXXFLAGS="${BUILD_CXXFLAGS}"'
 
 KERNEL_ALT_IMAGETYPE ??= ""
 
@@ -618,6 +618,7 @@
 # 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 @@
 	# $ 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"