On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 20:13 +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > 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... Hey, thanks for forwarding. I figured I would do that, but I see you already did. And yea, next time I'll ping the Kbuild folks directly. Jon. -- 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
