On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 10:45 PM Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Some distributions aim at not shipping any files in / ustside of usr.
>
> The path under which kernel modules are instaleld is hardcoded to /lib
> which conflicts with this goal.
>
> When kmod provides the config command use it to determine the correct
> module installation prefix.
>
> On kmod that does not provide the command / is used as before.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: Avoid error on systems with kmod that does not support config
> command
> ---
> Makefile | 4 +++-
> scripts/depmod.sh | 8 ++++----
> 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 47690c28456a..b1fea135bdec 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -1165,7 +1165,9 @@ export INSTALL_DTBS_PATH ?= $(INSTALL_PATH)/dtbs/$(KERNELRELEASE)
> # makefile but the argument can be passed to make if needed.
> #
>
> -MODLIB = $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)
> +export KERNEL_MODULE_PREFIX := $(shell kmod config &> /dev/null && kmod config | jq -r .module_prefix)
> +
> +MODLIB = $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)$(KERNEL_MODULE_PREFIX)/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)
You can do "make modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/usr/what/ever/prefix"
This patch is unneeded.
> export MODLIB
>
> PHONY += prepare0
> diff --git a/scripts/depmod.sh b/scripts/depmod.sh
> index 3643b4f896ed..88ac79056153 100755
> --- a/scripts/depmod.sh
> +++ b/scripts/depmod.sh
> @@ -27,16 +27,16 @@ fi
> # numbers, so we cheat with a symlink here
> depmod_hack_needed=true
> tmp_dir=$(mktemp -d ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/depmod.XXXXXX)
> -mkdir -p "$tmp_dir/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE"
> +mkdir -p "$tmp_dir$KERNEL_MODULE_PREFIX/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE"
> if "$DEPMOD" -b "$tmp_dir" $KERNELRELEASE 2>/dev/null; then
> - if test -e "$tmp_dir/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE/modules.dep" -o \
> - -e "$tmp_dir/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE/modules.dep.bin"; then
> + if test -e "$tmp_dir$KERNEL_MODULE_PREFIX/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE/modules.dep" -o \
> + -e "$tmp_dir$KERNEL_MODULE_PREFIX/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE/modules.dep.bin"; then
> depmod_hack_needed=false
> fi
> fi
> rm -rf "$tmp_dir"
> if $depmod_hack_needed; then
> - symlink="$INSTALL_MOD_PATH/lib/modules/99.98.$KERNELRELEASE"
> + symlink="$INSTALL_MOD_PATH$KERNEL_MODULE_PREFIX/lib/modules/99.98.$KERNELRELEASE"
> ln -s "$KERNELRELEASE" "$symlink"
> KERNELRELEASE=99.98.$KERNELRELEASE
> fi
> --
> 2.41.0
>
--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
