From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
linux-modules@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: do not check for ancient modutils tools
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:33:39 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1326861219.490.4.camel@cr0> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1326819051-25712-1-git-send-email-lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
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>
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-18 4:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-17 16:50 [PATCH] kbuild: do not check for ancient modutils tools Lucas De Marchi
2012-01-18 4:33 ` Cong Wang [this message]
2012-01-20 16:40 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-23 14:17 ` Michal Marek
2012-01-23 14:32 ` Lucas De Marchi
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