Hi Kristof, You are right, I did clone the source on mac os. And I am really suffering :( All the best! Freeman -------- Original Message -------- > On 2014-12-04 20:21:58 (+0800), Freeman Zhang <freeman.zhang1992@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Finally I cloned the mainline kernel from >> "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git". >> However, when I'm looking at the git directory, I got nothing but: >> >> . .. arch .DS_Store .git .gitignore .mailmap >> > Are you by any chance trying to do this on an OS X machine? > That's going to lead to pain and suffering. > > For example, there are a couple of files which have the same name with > different case, which isn't going to work on a default OS X install. > By default OS X has a case insensitive file system. It's possible to > change that, but you *really* want a Linux system to build the kernel. > > Regards, > Kristof >
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