Due to wrong documentation on kmod_module_get_info() we ended up checking for 0 as return. Check for > 0 to decided if we want to write the index to the file, otherwise we would output a 0-sized index on success. --- tools/depmod.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/depmod.c b/tools/depmod.c index 170a1d8..eb810b8 100644 --- a/tools/depmod.c +++ b/tools/depmod.c @@ -2457,7 +2457,7 @@ static int output_builtin_alias_bin(struct depmod *depmod, FILE *out) out: /* do not bother writing the index if we are going to discard it */ - if (!ret) + if (ret > 0) index_write(idx, out); if (builtin) -- 2.31.1