On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Luciano Coelho <coelho@xxxxxx> wrote: > If you're cross-compiling compat-wireless on a different host, you > can't reliably use modprobe. The host system may not even have > modprobe, so it doesn't make sense to run modprobe, unless you're > installing the modules on the target machine. > > The modprobe command was being used unconditionally to set the MADWIFI > and OLD_IWL variables. This commit adds a check to see whether > modprobe exists before trying to use. It also adds a dependency on > the modprobe commands to all recipes that rely on it, so we fail more > gracefully if modprobe doesn't exist in the system. > > Reported by: William List <wlist@xxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@xxxxxx> Good point, I've propagated this into the linux-3.2.y and linux-3.1.y branches of compat-wireless as well so that if a new release is made the fixes go along with it. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
