Re: Pure kernel '2.6.37-rc1-00001-ge99d11d' shown as ~-dirty aftercompilation

[AmÃrico Wang]

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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