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

["Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 06:35:46PM +0000, trapDoor wrote:
>Obviously I do that only on freshly cloned git tree or on a kernel
>unpacked from tarball. If I just update my git tree, the firmware
>files will be already in place after previous configuration. And here
>is interesting thing: neither of these commands ..
>	make mrproper
>	make distclean
>.. will remove the firmware files I had put in place manually. After
>doing 'make mrproper && make distclean' my tree should be clean. But
>those firmwares still remain there (I always check as I need to built
>them in and hence my .config refers to them). 

They even don't know your firmwares files exist, how can
you suppose them to remove those files for you?


> And if I run 'make
>oldonfig && make kernelrelease' afterwards, it will come up with a
>'non-dirty' version string. And this seems consistent: 'make mrproper
>&& make distclean' tell me that my tree is clean despite the FW files
>so 'make kernelrelease' gives me a clean version string as well - and
>exactly the same version should be propagated after compilation (in
>vmlinuz, initrd-img, grub entry, etc.). And that how it always worked
>for me before
>

Check the output of 'git status', if it says your tree is clean,
then you should not have '-dirty'.


>It's not that I think that a kernel with (only) firmware file(s) added
>manually should be considered as clean because 'make kernelrelease'
>tells me so - actually I always thought it wasis wrong. I just want to
>have 'make kernelrelease' coming up with the same version name as I'll
>get after compilation.
>

If so, you need to disable CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO *and*
append "LOCALVERSION=" to your 'make' command.