On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:33:34 pm Jon Masters wrote: > Recent kernels include an additional call to depmod during the installation > of external kernel modules as a convenience, in order to ensure that those > modules are picked up by the module loading tools/initramfs scripts, etc. > Although this call is potentially of some value, it should not be made > when explicitly setting INSTALL_MOD_PATH to a different location. This > avoids creating extraneous modules.* files that will never be used. > > Signed-off-by: Jon Masters <jcm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I leave the Makefile stuff to the kbuild people... > --- > Makefile | 2 ++ > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > index f3bdff8..2b904f2 100644 > --- a/Makefile > +++ b/Makefile > @@ -1325,7 +1325,9 @@ _emodinst_: > > PHONY += _emodinst_post > _emodinst_post: _emodinst_ > +ifeq ($(INSTALL_MOD_PATH),) > $(call cmd,depmod) > +endif > > clean-dirs := $(addprefix _clean_,$(KBUILD_EXTMOD)) Thanks, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
