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Message-ID: <20101104090050.GF5210@cr0.nay.redhat.com> Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:00:50 +0800 From: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> To: trapDoor <trapdoor6@...il.com> Cc: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Pure kernel '2.6.37-rc1-00001-ge99d11d' shown as ~-dirty after compilation 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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