diff --git a/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi.inc b/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi.inc
index ea7f778..f6e5774 100644
--- a/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi.inc
+++ b/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi.inc
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 KBUILD_DEFCONFIG_raspberrypi4 ?= "bcm2711_defconfig"
 KBUILD_DEFCONFIG_raspberrypi4-64 ?= "bcm2711_defconfig"
 
+LINUX_VERSION_EXTENSION ?= ""
+
 # CMDLINE for raspberrypi
 SERIAL = "${@oe.utils.conditional("ENABLE_UART", "1", "console=serial0,115200", "", d)}"
 CMDLINE ?= "dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 ${SERIAL} root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait"
@@ -98,9 +100,6 @@
     mv -f ${B}/.config ${B}/.config.patched
     CONF_SED_SCRIPT=""
 
-    # Localversion
-    kernel_configure_variable LOCALVERSION "\"\""
-
     if [ "${INITRAMFS_IMAGE_BUNDLE}" = "1" ]; then
         kernel_configure_variable OVERLAY_FS y
         kernel_configure_variable SQUASHFS y