Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:21:26 +0200 | From | Michal Marek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Do not write to builddir in modules_install |
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On 13.7.2011 03:05, Américo Wang wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Michal Marek<mmarek@suse.cz> wrote: >> Let depmod.sh create a temporary directory in /tmp instead of writing to >> the build directory as root. The mktemp utility should be available on >> any recent system (and there is already scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh >> relying on it). >> > > Hmm, why not use $objtree/.tmp_depmod?
That's how it was done before and it's broken. make modules_install is usually ran as root and there is no guarantee that root has write access to the build directory (it can be on nfs).
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