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From: free.amit.kumar@gmail.com (Amit Kumar)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Which repository to clone ?
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 23:47:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170201234708.GA13053@li620-105.members.linode.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB3L5oyR4EtmEjxFb3G_D-aJXxvhOjtKvO3COqMd8K6UOq+bSQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 03:39:18AM +0530, srishti sharma wrote:
> Hey,
> I am an absolute newbie , I tried to clone greg kroah-hartman's
> staging tree repository , somehow I was not able to boot in the kernel
> I built .
> 
> Also, Does this command below give me the latest kernel code ?
> 
> I have tried to clone another repository using the command below
> 
> git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> 
> 
> while building with this , I had to install gcc plugin-dev . I don't
> understand why ?
> I didn't have to do it last time I built the kernel
You may use this link,
https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-next.html
In summary, first you clone main upstream tree then add linux-next tree.
Whenever you want to create a patch, create a topic branch from the
latest next-* tag.

Regards,
Amit Kumar
> 
> Regards
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-02-01 23:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-01 22:09 Which repository to clone ? srishti sharma
2017-02-01 23:36 ` Lino Sanfilippo
2017-02-01 23:38   ` srishti sharma
2017-02-01 23:46     ` Lino Sanfilippo
2017-02-01 23:47 ` Amit Kumar [this message]
2017-02-01 23:58   ` srishti sharma
2017-02-02  0:05     ` srishti sharma
2017-02-02  3:29       ` Amit Kumar
2017-02-02  4:53         ` Amit Kumar
2017-02-02  7:12 ` Greg KH
2017-02-02 10:32   ` srishti sharma

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