buildroot - how to change kernel version string

Question

I work on SAM9G25 EK board with buildroot and Armstrong linux (Linux4sam). My script is creating linux version \"2.6.39+\" and this \"+\" is confusing (/lib/modules folder e

Answer 1

In this case the main reason was : scripts/setlocalversion line >170:

# append a plus sign if the repository is not in a clean
# annotated or signed tagged state (as git describe only
# looks at signed or annotated tags - git tag -a/-s) and
# LOCALVERSION= is not specified
if test "${LOCALVERSION+set}" != "set"; then
    scm=$(scm_version --short)
    res="$res${scm:++}"
fi

I commented this part out.