Bump? This should be trivial to merge, and it fixes a really annoying bug for module development. On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Running `make modules_install` ordinarily will overwrite existing > modules. This is the desired behavior, and is how pretty much every > other `make install` target works. > > However, if CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS is enabled, modules are passed > through gzip and xz which then do the file writing. Both gzip and xz > will error out if the file already exists, unless -f is passed. > > This patch adds -f so that the behavior is uniform. > > Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Makefile | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > index 6c6f146..5d2ec1c 100644 > --- a/Makefile > +++ b/Makefile > @@ -849,10 +849,10 @@ export mod_strip_cmd > mod_compress_cmd = true > ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS > ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP > - mod_compress_cmd = gzip -n > + mod_compress_cmd = gzip -n -f > endif # CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP > ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ > - mod_compress_cmd = xz > + mod_compress_cmd = xz -f > endif # CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ > endif # CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS > export mod_compress_cmd > -- > 2.4.2 > -- 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
