From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: yannick.brosseau@gmail.com (Brosseau, Yannick)
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:59:10 -0500
Subject: [ltt-dev] [PATCH] Makefile: do not run depmod manually
In-Reply-To: <1320321187-2075-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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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.

Yannick