This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled kbuild: deb-pkg: do not build linux-headers package if CONFIG_MODULES=n to the 5.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: kbuild-deb-pkg-do-not-build-linux-headers-package-if.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit dfd79d235871ad4cc266f4edf926b0fb5926d71c Author: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Oct 14 03:38:19 2020 +0900 kbuild: deb-pkg: do not build linux-headers package if CONFIG_MODULES=n [ Upstream commit bac977cbc0d6731fb8e67c2be0e4acbd959e10b3 ] Since commit 269a535ca931 ("modpost: generate vmlinux.symvers and reuse it for the second modpost"), with CONFIG_MODULES disabled, "make deb-pkg" (or "make bindeb-pkg") fails with: find: â??Module.symversâ??: No such file or directory If CONFIG_MODULES is disabled, it doesn't really make sense to build the linux-headers package. Fixes: 269a535ca931 ("modpost: generate vmlinux.symvers and reuse it for the second modpost") Reported-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb index 6df3c9f8b2da6..8277144298a00 100755 --- a/scripts/package/builddeb +++ b/scripts/package/builddeb @@ -202,8 +202,10 @@ EOF done if [ "$ARCH" != "um" ]; then - deploy_kernel_headers debian/linux-headers - create_package linux-headers-$version debian/linux-headers + if is_enabled CONFIG_MODULES; then + deploy_kernel_headers debian/linux-headers + create_package linux-headers-$version debian/linux-headers + fi deploy_libc_headers debian/linux-libc-dev create_package linux-libc-dev debian/linux-libc-dev diff --git a/scripts/package/mkdebian b/scripts/package/mkdebian index 48fbd3d0284a8..ccd46aad1dff6 100755 --- a/scripts/package/mkdebian +++ b/scripts/package/mkdebian @@ -183,13 +183,6 @@ Description: Linux kernel, version $version This package contains the Linux kernel, modules and corresponding other files, version: $version. -Package: $kernel_headers_packagename -Architecture: $debarch -Description: Linux kernel headers for $version on $debarch - This package provides kernel header files for $version on $debarch - . - This is useful for people who need to build external modules - Package: linux-libc-dev Section: devel Provides: linux-kernel-headers @@ -200,6 +193,18 @@ Description: Linux support headers for userspace development Multi-Arch: same EOF +if is_enabled CONFIG_MODULES; then +cat <<EOF >> debian/control + +Package: $kernel_headers_packagename +Architecture: $debarch +Description: Linux kernel headers for $version on $debarch + This package provides kernel header files for $version on $debarch + . + This is useful for people who need to build external modules +EOF +fi + if is_enabled CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO; then cat <<EOF >> debian/control