On 2020-05-31 20:16, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 1:44 PM Jonas Zeiger
<jonas.zeiger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Many applications check for available kernel features via:
* /proc/modules (loaded modules, present if CONFIG_MODULES=y)
* $(MODLIB)/modules.builtin (builtin modules)
They fail to detect features if the kernel was built with
CONFIG_MODULES=n
and modules.builtin isn't installed.
Therefore, allow the Makefile's modules_install target to be used
always.
Tested Makefile targets with different CONFIG_MODULES states:
* (CONFIG_MODULES=n) modules_install: install modules.builtin etc.
* (CONFIG_MODULES=y) modules_install: produce same result as before
* (CONFIG_MODULES=y) modules_install: still fail if no modules.order
* (CONFIG_MODULES=y) modules: build modules, as before
* (CONFIG_MODULES=n) modules: still fail and warn
Signed-off-by: Jonas Zeiger <jonas.zeiger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Maybe, module.builtin and module.builtin.modinfo should be
installed by 'make install' because they are byproducts of vmlinux.
Yes, thank you for this suggestion.
I will submit a new patch.
