On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 13.7.2011 03:05, Américo Wang wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Michal Marek<mmarek@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Let depmod.sh create a temporary directory in /tmp instead of writing to >>> the build directory as root. The mktemp utility should be available on >>> any recent system (and there is already scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh >>> relying on it). >>> >> >> Hmm, why not use $objtree/.tmp_depmod? > > That's how it was done before and it's broken. make modules_install is > usually ran as root and there is no guarantee that root has write access to > the build directory (it can be on nfs). Hmm, this is reasonable. Then I am fine with this patch. Thanks for explanation! -- 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
