On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Andrej Krutak <andrej.krutak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi again, > > below is a patch to (re-)add support for modules.dep (in addition to > modules.dep.bin), in a very dirty way. Basically I just took parts of the > original code from module-init-tools... > > Also, it fixes the CHECK_ERR_AND_FINISH macro. > > > However, this doesn't fix the whole "problem" - 'modprobe nonexistingmodule' > is called, no error is printed, because of the faulty processing of subsequent > non-existent files (like modules.builtin.bin etc. - which depmod.pl doesn't > generate). > > To fully fix this, one would have to also add support for the other > legacy files. Well, at least a support to handle the missing files gracefully. > > Fixing this is important for when you want to cross-compile the kernel in a > non-linux environment. I didn't find find any other tool than depmod.pl that > could generate all the files required by modprobe (but depmod.pl, as mentioned > before, doesn't generate other .bin files) - and kmod/module-init-tools can't > be cross-compiled for cygwin/mingw32... I think it's better to just remove the reference in the man page. We don't support other tools poking /lib/modules/* files. They are private to kmod and we can break them in a future version. I'd rather advise you to fix your setup so you don't need to cross-compile depmod. If you want to cross-compile... well, you need to provide the patches to at least adding the stubs for things that doesn't exist there... But this patch would probably never be accepted upstream since it's such a weird thing to do, sorry. Lucas De Marchi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
