Messages in this thread | | | From | Kay Sievers <> | Date | Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:40:58 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kbuild: do not check for ancient modutils tools |
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 05:33, Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 14:50 -0200, Lucas De Marchi wrote: >> scripts/depmod.sh checks for the output of '-V' expecting that it has >> module-init-tools in it. It's a hack to prevent users from using >> modutils instead of module-init-tools, that only works with 2.4.x >> kernels. This however prints an annoying warning for kmod tool, that is >> currently replacing module-init-tools. >> >> Rather than putting another check for kmod's version, just remove it >> since users of 2.4.x kernel are unlikely to upgrade to 3.x, and if they >> do, let depmod fail in that case because they should know what they are >> doing. >> >> Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> > > Acked-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Michal, mind picking this up? The warning it produces with kmod is really misleading, and the check seems unnecessary these days.
Acked-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Thanks, Kay
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