Messages in this thread | | | From | Olof Johansson <> | Date | Fri, 12 May 2017 15:55:20 -0700 | Subject | Re: depmod gets stuck in symlink cycle in arch/arm/boot/dts/include |
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Yeah, the location of the include directory needs to move. I'll post a patch shortly. Russell reported it earlier but the week got busy and I lost track of it.
The easiest solution here is to move the dts/include directory to somewhere else.
-Olof
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Linux kernel commit 4027494ae6e3 ("ARM: dts: add arm/arm64 include > symlinks") introduced a couple of symlink cycles: > > $ ls -al arch/arm{,64}/boot/dts/include > arch/arm64/boot/dts/include: > total 12 > drwxr-xr-x 1 osandov users 38 May 11 14:01 . > drwxr-xr-x 1 osandov users 320 Jan 25 20:44 .. > lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users 24 May 11 14:01 arm -> ../../../../arm/boot/dts > lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users 2 May 11 14:01 arm64 -> .. > lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users 34 Nov 23 12:07 dt-bindings -> ../../../../../include/dt-bindings > > arch/arm/boot/dts/include: > total 12 > drwxr-xr-x 1 osandov users 38 May 11 14:01 . > drwxr-xr-x 1 osandov users 63102 May 11 14:01 .. > lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users 2 May 11 14:01 arm -> .. > lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users 26 May 11 14:01 arm64 -> ../../../../arm64/boot/dts > lrwxrwxrwx 1 osandov users 34 Nov 23 12:07 dt-bindings -> ../../../../../include/dt-bindings > > On my system, /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel is a symlink to > /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build, which is my built linux.git. depmod > doesn't like these symlink cycles and ends up in an infinite loop. > > Maybe I shouldn't be symlinking kernel to build like this, but depmod > shouldn't be getting stuck like this either. I wonder if anything else > is going to barf on these symlink cycles, too.
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