Re: [PATCH 14/16] udev: run depmod if modules.dep doesn't exist

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 19:51 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 4 jan. 2012, om 18:15 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 19:55 +0000, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> >> Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>
> >> ---
> >> meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/init   |    5 +++++
> >> meta/recipes-core/udev/udev_164.bb |    2 +-
> >> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >> 
> >> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/init b/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/init
> >> index 322e7e7..8d89d51 100644
> >> --- a/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/init
> >> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/init
> >> @@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ if [ "$DEVCACHE" != "" ]; then
> >> 	fi
> >> fi
> >> 
> >> +if [ -x /sbin/depmod ] && [ ! -e "/lib/modules/$(uname -r)"/modules.dep ]; then
> >> +	mkdir -p /lib/modules/$(uname -r)
> >> +	depmod -ae
> >> +fi
> >> +
> >> # make_extra_nodes
> >> kill_udevd > "/dev/null" 2>&1
> > 
> > Why does udev need to do this instead of the kernel module postinstalls?
> > This strikes me as the wrong thing to be doing here...
> 
> Udev runs before those installs get run on first boot.

but pkg_postinst_kernel-image from kernel.bbclass should be creating
this at rootfs creation time?

Cheers,

Richard