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

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Graeme Russ <graeme.russ at gmail.com> 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
>

Well that commits not necessarily are upstream ;-)

It only means that are commits after the last tag.

Regards,

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