This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kbuild: remove unneeded mkdir for external modules_install
to the 5.10-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-remove-unneeded-mkdir-for-external-modules_in.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 1f2fcfb7aa5bfc58a673ceda542b47b14ba6c838
Author: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Mar 31 22:38:02 2021 +0900
kbuild: remove unneeded mkdir for external modules_install
[ Upstream commit 4b97ec0e9cfd5995f41b9726c88566a31f4625cc ]
scripts/Makefile.modinst creates directories as needed.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Stable-dep-of: 055f37f84e30 ("KVM: x86: emulator: update the emulation mode after rsm")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 166f87bdc190..9eacc623642c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1746,10 +1746,8 @@ $(MODORDER): descend
PHONY += modules_install
modules_install: _emodinst_ _emodinst_post
-install-dir := $(if $(INSTALL_MOD_DIR),$(INSTALL_MOD_DIR),extra)
PHONY += _emodinst_
_emodinst_:
- $(Q)mkdir -p $(MODLIB)/$(install-dir)
$(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.modinst
PHONY += _emodinst_post
