On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
>   i just built a new kernel from the latest git tree and while i set
> the EXTRAVERSION value in the Makefile to "-crash", what was tacked on
> to the kernel name was "-crash+".  why the "+"?
>
>   i immediately assumed that that was being appended by
> scripts/setlocalversion to represent ... not sure, that it was being
> built from a dirty git checkout or something to do with a signifier of
> version control.  but i don't see in that script where it's being
> done.

  never mind, found it in the top-level Makefile.

rday

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