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

[trapDoor]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 5:07 PM, trapDoor <trapdoor6@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 08:26:59AM +0000, trapDoor wrote:
>>>,Hello,
>>>When I run 'make kernelrelease' on freshly cloned Linus' git tree it
>>>shows kernel version as: '2.6.37-rc1-00001-ge99d11d' - and that's
>>>correct.
>>>But after compilation it turned up '2.6.37-rc1-00001-ge99d11d-dirty'.
>>>
>>>I didn't apply any custom patches to my local tree between 'make
>>>kernelrelease' and compilation. What I only added - and before running
>>>'make kernelrelease' - were the following Radeon firmware blobs for my
>>>graphic card, which I placed in <kernel-source>/firmware/radeon/, in
>>>order to compile them in:
>>>REDWOOD_me.bin
>>>REDWOOD_pfp.bin
>>>REDWOOD_rlc.bin
>>>
>>>That's how I always did and none of the git-kernels I compiled before
>>>was referred to as '-dirty' due to the firmware blobs added manually.
>>>Also, the kernel version shown by 'make kernelrelease' never differed
>>>from the final kernel version after compilation. Of course assuming
>>>that no patches were applied in the meantime and no extra string was
>>>appended manually to the kernel version.
>>>
>>>So, what's this '-dirty' about?
>>>
>>
>> That means your git tree is not clean, since you placed new firmwares
>> into the source tree.
>>
>> --
>> Live like a child, think like the god.
>>
>
> OK, but then 'make kernelrelease' should produce the same '..-dirty'
> version, not just '2.6.37-rc1-00001-ge99d11d', shouldn't it?
>
> I always do the following steps in the same order:
> 1) first I place the firmware files in <kernel-src>/firmware/radeon
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). 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

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.


-- 
Thanks,
Tomasz
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