On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 01:25:38PM -0700, Jeffrey Hugo wrote: > On 7/27/2024 1:42 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > Exclude directories and files unnecessary for building external modules: > > > > - include/config/ (except include/config/auto.conf) > > - scripts/atomic/ > > - scripts/dtc/ > > - scripts/kconfig/ > > - scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig > > - scripts/package/ > > - scripts/unifdef > > - .config > > Please revert this (the removal of .config). > > I got some strange reports that our external module install broke, and > traced it to this change. Our external module references the .config > because we have different logic for the build depending on if other, related > modules are present or not. > > Also, it looks like this broke DKMS for some configurations, which not only > impacts DKMS itself [1] but also downstream projects [2]. > > While DKMS may be updated going forward to avoid this issue, there are > plenty of affected version out in the wild. > > Also, I haven't surveyed every distro, but it looks like Ubuntu still > packages the .config with their headers in their upcoming "Plucky" release > based on 6.12. I suspect they wouldn't do that if they didn't feel it was > needed/useful. > > -Jeff > > [1]: https://github.com/dell/dkms/issues/464 > [2]: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/issues/1654 Hi Jeff, do you know the related thread [1]? According to the last mail, DKMS has fixed its issue already in December. Kind regards, Nicolas [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kbuild/CAK7LNARqEOVOzP5vdUVF0KxQBNb9xtYs-COSXXWDMpBzGaLGow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#m95f48caf46357a41c1df5e038e227a01ab89dbda
