Re: Make kernel -dirty naming optional

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:49:34PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:02:10PM +0000, Frederik Deweerdt wrote:
> > Could you consider applying this patch (or indicate me a better way to
> > do it). It can be handy to be able to keep the naming independent of
> > git.
> 
> FWIW, if I enable git name tagging, every kernel I compile is tagged as
> "dirty", even if I cloned it directly from kernel.org and didn't make
> any change to the source. That makes the "dirty" tag useless IMHO.

make mrproper
make allmodconfig
make prepare
make kernelrelease 
	2.6.18-ga5fa393b
vi MAINTAINERS
make prepare
make kernelrelease
	2.6.18-ga5fa393b-dirty

So it wrks for me.
Can you provice a few more details what steps you do when you see it failing.

	Sam
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