ci: static-checks: Move kernel config check to its own job

It doesn't make sense to run this for all the bits of the matrix,
neither it's demanding enough to require running this in one of our
Azure sponsored runners.

Fixes: #7974 -- part 0

Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano.fidencio@intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit 75c974c802)

.github/workflows/static-checks.yaml

@@ -12,6 +12,28 @@ concurrency:
 
 name: Static checks
 jobs:
+  check-kernel-config-version:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout the code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Ensure the kernel config version has been updated
+        run: |
+          kernel_dir="tools/packaging/kernel/"
+          kernel_version_file="${kernel_dir}kata_config_version"
+          modified_files=$(git diff --name-only origin/$GITHUB_BASE_REF..HEAD)
+          if git diff --name-only origin/$GITHUB_BASE_REF..HEAD "${kernel_dir}" | grep "${kernel_dir}"; then
+            echo "Kernel directory has changed, checking if $kernel_version_file has been updated"
+            if echo "$modified_files" | grep -v "README.md" | grep "${kernel_dir}" >>"/dev/null"; then
+              echo "$modified_files" | grep "$kernel_version_file" >>/dev/null || ( echo "Please bump version in $kernel_version_file" && exit 1)
+            else
+              echo "Readme file changed, no need for kernel config version update."
+            fi
+            echo "Check passed"
+          fi
+
   static-checks:
     runs-on: garm-ubuntu-2004
     strategy:
@@ -48,21 +70,6 @@ jobs:
       uses: actions/setup-go@v3
       with:
         go-version: 1.19.3
-    - name: Check kernel config version
-      run: |
-        cd "${{ github.workspace }}/src/github.com/${{ github.repository }}"
-        kernel_dir="tools/packaging/kernel/"
-        kernel_version_file="${kernel_dir}kata_config_version"
-        modified_files=$(git diff --name-only origin/main..HEAD)
-        if git diff --name-only origin/main..HEAD "${kernel_dir}" | grep "${kernel_dir}"; then
-          echo "Kernel directory has changed, checking if $kernel_version_file has been updated"
-          if echo "$modified_files" | grep -v "README.md" | grep "${kernel_dir}" >>"/dev/null"; then
-            echo "$modified_files" | grep "$kernel_version_file" >>/dev/null || ( echo "Please bump version in $kernel_version_file" && exit 1)
-          else
-            echo "Readme file changed, no need for kernel config version update."
-          fi
-          echo "Check passed"
-        fi
     - name: Set PATH
       if: ${{ !contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'force-skip-ci') }}
       run: |