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

[Anand Moon]

Hi Christopher, 
From my knowledge it because of in linux-2.6.37/Makefile 
In my case content of Lantiq_UGW_5.x/linux/Makefile

#head Lantiq_UGW_5.x/linux/Makefile
VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 6
SUBLEVEL = 32
EXTRAVERSION = .32
NAME = Man-Eating Seals of Antiquity
# *DOCUMENTATION*

This EXTRAVERSION get added to Kernel build path
# Read KERNELRELEASE from include/config/kernel.release (if it exists)
KERNELRELEASE = $(shell cat include/config/kernel.release 2> /dev/null)
KERNELVERSION = $(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)

On My system on provide the following command.
#uname -r
#2.6.32.32
#
If you check the EXTRAVERSION you will find the reason of '+'
Or Some were in the linux-2.6.37/Makefile you might be appending some extra FLAGS or environment variable to KERNELVERSION.

Read the linux-2.6.37/Makefile for details under the following line.

# Build the kernel release string

Please try to echo this "KERNELVERSION" during compilation of kernel.
-Anand Moon

________________________________
 From: Christopher Harvey <chris at basementcode.com>
To: kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org 
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: what is the "+" sigh in the modules folder name?


On 23.01.2012 15:53, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Graeme Russ wrote:
>
>> It would be worth testing if a checkout of a tag (say 3.2.0) plus a
>> local commit causes '+' and 'dirty'
>
>   i think "dirty" only shows up if you have local, uncommitted
> changes.  but i should probably verify that.
>
I had a local commits when I compiled the kernel. I should have 
mentioned that in my original email.

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