From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: askb23@gmail.com (Anil Shashikumar Belur) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 08:33:38 +0530 Subject: Practical way to rename kernel-release on custom kernel In-Reply-To: <20140710152839.GA30830@archlinux.domain.name> References: <20140710152839.GA30830@archlinux.domain.name> Message-ID: <53BF540A.6040107@gmail.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Thursday 10 July 2014 08:58 PM, Safarin wrote: > > I can see makefile create folder inside the lib/modules with naming > 3.16.0-rc3-ARCH-00570-g110e430 This is the commit id which is the being appended at the end, as you may have some patch ( or uncommited changes to your makefile). Check the output of `git describe` and try doing a `git commit -a -v` if that helps.