On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > Dear All: > > I have a tree that existed for a few years (a clone of Linus' tree). > Today I did a git pull in it, and a plus appeared in the built version. > E.g. after "make modules_install": > > [root@niphredil linux-2.6-tip]# ls /lib/modules/ > 2.6.33.1-19.fc13.x86_64 2.6.34-rc6-tip 2.6.35-rc1-tip > 2.6.34-43.fc14.x86_64 2.6.35-0.36.rc4.git5.fc14.x86_64 2.6.35-rc5-tip+ > [root@niphredil linux-2.6-tip]# > > How do I get rid of the plus? I have (had for a long time): > > [zaitcev@niphredil linux-2.6-tip]$ grep LOCAL .config > CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-tip" > # CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is not set > CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y > [zaitcev@niphredil linux-2.6-tip]$ > I initially added the `+' to the version string in 85a256d8 during this release cycle. As the changelog indicates, it means that your tree is beyond a tagged commit and LOCALVERSION= was not passed on the command line so the tree must be described as a modified 2.6.35-rc5 kernel, for example, instead of vanilla. That's the semantics that the `+' indicates. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
