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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Graeme Russ wrote:

> On 01/24/2012 05:15 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:40:41PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >> On Mon, 23 Jan 2012, Greg KH wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >>   you sure?  i thought that if it was a modified working tree, you'd
> >> get the "-dirty" qualifier added, not just a "+".
> >
> > Try it and see :)
>
> >From what I can tell, the '+' means you are building source which includes
> upstream commits after the last tag in the tree
>
> So the current top-of-tree is 3.2.0+ because there are commits after the
> 3.2.0 tag
>
> As I understand it, if you have commits which are not in the upstream
> repository (or uncommitted changes) you get the 'dirty' flag

  ok, that sounds about right.  i should probably review that whole
versioning thing again.

rday

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