Which repository to clone ?

[Greg KH]

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

Because you must have enabled the gcc-plugin kernel build options.
Disable them if you do not wish to do this.

thanks,

greg k-h