On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 11:51 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 23:34 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > >> On Saturday, 23 of August 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > >>> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report > >>> of recent regressions. > >>> > >>> The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions > >>> from 2.6.26. Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know > >>> (either way). > >>> > >>> > >>> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11355 > >>> Subject : Regression in 2.6.27-rc2 when cross-building the kernel > >>> Submitter : Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > >>> Date : 2008-08-16 2:38 (8 days old) > >>> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121885432118368&w=4 > >> As I wrote in the Bugzilla, I'm seeing a related problem. > >> > >> Namely, I build kernels on one box, with 'make O=<target>', then I mount > >> <target> on another one over NFS, 'cd' to it and try to install the kernel > >> modules with 'make modules_install'. This results in 'HOSTCC firmware/ihex2fw' > >> and 'fatal error: ...: Read-only file system'. It's readily reproducible. > >> > >> Commenting out line 1130 of Makefile > >> ("$(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.fwinst obj=firmware __fw_modinst") > >> obviously helps, so it looks like Makefile.fwinst needs fixing. > > > > I don't like this much, but it should do the trick... please confirm. > > Yes, the patch fixes the problem. Thanks. Ok, I have a small handful of fixes to send to Linus for 2.6.27; Unless Sam (or someone else) comes up with a better answer, I'll make sure that goes with them. Thanks. -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
