From: compudj@krystal.dyndns.org (Mathieu Desnoyers)
Subject: [ltt-dev] [PATCH] Makefile: do not run depmod manually
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:00:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111120180017.GA24286@Krystal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEzWAe+UxV5AgZn7mVDLBUbavhFW4o_2DXrhdeyXvosROiiTKA@mail.gmail.com>
* Brosseau, Yannick (yannick.brosseau at gmail.com) wrote:
> Salut Thomas,
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > The modules_install target of the kernel build infrastructure already
> > runs depmod properly, taking into account the cross-compilation
>
> That's not exactly true. From the build system we find that:
> # Run depmod only if we have System.map and depmod is executable
> Since we don't have a System.map file in our module tree, this depmod
> execution is mostly a no-op.
> So it is necessary to run a depmod manually after installation.
>
> It might be something wrong in the kbuild, but I don't know this
> system enough to be able to judge.
I added a comment in the README file to that effect. Thanks,
Mathieu
>
> Yannick
>
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Mathieu Desnoyers
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-03 11:53 Thomas Petazzoni
2011-11-03 12:04 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-11-18 21:59 ` Brosseau, Yannick
2011-11-20 18:00 ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
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