On 9.10.2013 09:18, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 2013-09-30 10:49 +0200, Robert Richter spake thusly: >>> On 18.07.13 11:22:24, Michal Marek wrote: >>>>> So Michal (or ARM people - whoever wants to take the patch), just take >>>>> my ack. No objections. >>>> >>>> I can add it to the kbuild tree if needed. Otherwise you can add >>>> Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>. >>> >>> This didn't make it upstream yet, can somebody at it to a tree? >> >> Since it's been acked-by Linus, I'll queue it in my tree, for Michal to >> pull from. Expect a pull-request soon. > > Sorry for chiming in that late, but I didn't think of this when reading the > original submission. > > Just doing "make oldconfig; make install" used to work. On ARM and maybe other architectures. > Removing the dependency of "make vmlinux" on vmlinux breaks this, doesn't it? Yes. > I had the habit of doing the above many years ago, when I was mostly doing > native builds, and before I had my own custom linux-install-kernel > script that e.g. > knows how to copy kernels and modules around to NFS servers. > > Not that I'm strongly attached to it, but there may be other users... We can't eat the cake and have it :). What can be done is to make arch/arm/boot/install.sh print a friendlier error message, like the x86 version does: if [ ! -f "$1" ]; then echo "" 1>&2 echo " *** Missing file: $1" 1>&2 echo ' *** You need to run "make" before "make install".' 1>&2 echo "" 1>&2 exit 1 fi Michal -- 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
