2018-08-29 4:59 GMT+09:00 Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org:
From: Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org
When $DEPMOD is not found, only print a warning instead of exiting with an error message and error status:
Warning: 'make modules_install' requires /sbin/depmod. Please install it. This is probably in the kmod package.
Change the Error to a Warning because "not all build hosts for cross compiling Linux are Linux systems and are able to provide a working port of depmod, especially at the file patch /sbin/depmod."
I.e., "make modules_install" may be used to copy/install the loadable modules files to a target directory on a build system and then transferred to an embedded device where /sbin/depmod is run instead of it being run on the build system.
Fixes: 934193a654c1 ("kbuild: verify that $DEPMOD is installed")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org Reported-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller hns@goldelico.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Lucas De Marchi lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi Cc: Lucas De Marchi lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com Cc: Michal Marek michal.lkml@markovi.net Cc: Jessica Yu jeyu@kernel.org Cc: Chih-Wei Huang cwhuang@linux.org.tw Cc: H. Nikolaus Schaller hns@goldelico.com
Applied to linux-kbuild/fixes. Thanks!
v2: add missing "exit 0" and update the commit message (no Error). v3: add Fixes: and Cc: stable v4: add Reported-by: and more explanation for the patch.
scripts/depmod.sh | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- lnx-418.orig/scripts/depmod.sh +++ lnx-418/scripts/depmod.sh @@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ if ! test -r System.map ; then fi
if [ -z $(command -v $DEPMOD) ]; then
echo "'make modules_install' requires $DEPMOD. Please install it." >&2
echo "Warning: 'make modules_install' requires $DEPMOD. Please install it." >&2 echo "This is probably in the kmod package." >&2
exit 1
exit 0fi
# older versions of depmod require the version string to start with three