From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: compudj@krystal.dyndns.org (Mathieu Desnoyers) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:00:17 -0500 Subject: [ltt-dev] [PATCH] Makefile: do not run depmod manually In-Reply-To: References: <1320321187-2075-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20111120180017.GA24286@Krystal> * Brosseau, Yannick (yannick.brosseau at gmail.com) wrote: > Salut Thomas, > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Thomas Petazzoni > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > ltt-dev mailing list > ltt-dev at lists.casi.polymtl.ca > http://lists.casi.polymtl.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ltt-dev > -- Mathieu Desnoyers Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com