Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:00:50 +0800 | From | Américo Wang <> | Subject | Re: Pure kernel '2.6.37-rc1-00001-ge99d11d' shown as ~-dirty after compilation |
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On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 05:07:00PM +0000, trapDoor wrote: >>> >>>So, what's this '-dirty' about? >>> >> >> That means your git tree is not clean, since you placed new firmwares >> into the source tree. >> > >OK, but then 'make kernelrelease' should produce the same '..-dirty' >version, not just '2.6.37-rc1-00001-ge99d11d', shouldn't it? >
Yes, it should.
>I always do the following steps in the same order: >1) first I place the firmware files in <kernel-src>/firmware/radeon >2) then I choose appropriate config file and copy it into kernel >source directory >3) then I run 'make oldconfig' and at the end - just before compiling >and installing - 'make kernelrelease' > >As I mentioned, for none of the kernels I compiled prior to this >version (either from git or from tarball) 'make kernelrelease' >produced different version name than it came up after compilation. >
Note, there are few generated files not listed in gitignore, thus could cause your tree not to clean. For those files, we should add them into .gitignore.
Thanks.
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