Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:13:28 +0200 | From | Michal Marek <> | Subject | Re: [GIT] kbuild fixes for 3.0 |
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On 10.6.2011 05:57, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Arnaud Lacombe<lacombar@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> For the record, this should have been fixed by Michal in: > > You're missing the problem: we can't assume that people have updated user land. > > Furthermore, the very pull request I'm responding to actually tries to > handle this, see commit bfe5424a8b31 ("kbuild: Hack for depmod not > handling X.Y versions"), but it's just not working for me.
It handles what can be handled inside the kernel build, i.e. the depmod called from the Makefile during modules_install.
> And it's not working, because it only handles the "modules_install" > case, not the case where the system install scripts do their own > depmod.
Yes, tools creating an initrd would need a similar workaround, that's a pity :-(.
Michal
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