Which repository to clone ?

srishti sharma srishtishar at gmail.com
Wed Feb 1 19:05:27 EST 2017


Also my compiler is saying things like , cyclomatic complexity
followed by (i think) the parts it is compiling like driver names .
Also it has been two hours since it started compiling and it isn't
done yet . Is it because I ran $make instead $make -jx ? It was by
mistake .


On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 5:28 AM, srishti sharma <srishtishar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, I am running ubuntu 16.04 LTS
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 5:17 AM, Amit Kumar <free.amit.kumar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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