what appends a "+" to my built kernel version string?

2010-06-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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, th

Re: what appends a "+" to my built kernel version string?

2010-06-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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