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Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 06:44:14 -0500
From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "A. Nolson" <alohanono@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Weird strings in kernel uname when cross-compiling
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On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:41:05 +0100
"A. Nolson" <alohanono@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
>  anybody knows why every time I cross-compile my kernel (Denx 4.2 
> cross-compiling chain ) I get an extra string in my vermagic like this
> 
> 2.6.24-rc3-gd7ed933b-dirty
> 
> when my kernel's ( secretlabs 2.6.24-rc3) makefile has this parameters:
> 
> VERSION = 2
> PATCHLEVEL = 6
> SUBLEVEL = 24
> EXTRAVERSION = -rc3
> 
> (So no -gd7ed933b-dirty anywhere... )
> 
>  Having that is a bit annoying when I try to natively compile modules, 
> so I need to workaround it by copying  that extra string into my other 
> Makefiles. Anybody knows how to get rid of it?

It gets added on if you are building from a git repository and you have
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO set.  Disable that and it should go away.

(BTW, a quick grep in the top level Makefile would have told you all
that.)

josh