what is the "+" sigh in the modules folder name?

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Mon Jan 23 12:34:24 EST 2012


On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:25:20AM +0700, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
> Hi...
> 
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 23:15, Christopher Harvey
> <chris at basementcode.com> wrote:
> > I have a path on system called:
> > '/lib/modules/2.6.37+/'
> > It used to be called:
> > '/lib/modules/2.6.37/'
> 
> Hm strange. You said you have the kernel source, right? Can you show
> us about ten top lines of the Makefile in the main kernel source
> directory?
> 
> I am suspecting there is "+" character in the extraversion..but that
> needs to be checked....

No, it just means you have a "modified" kernel tree, that is not reall
2.6.37, you have changed it somehow.  The build system asks git about
this when building the kernel.

It's normal, just only build a "clean" 2.6.37 and it will go away.

greg k-h



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