Re: 2.6.37-rc3-git installed modules zero bytes long

["Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 05:24:52PM +0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
>On 30/11/10 15:48, Américo Wang wrote:
>>On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 02:59:55PM +0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
>>>openSUSE 11.3 on one box and openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 4 on the other.
>>>I have a message that says the built modules not found. When I check e.g
>>>/lib/modules/2.7.37-rc3-git7-smp, most modules are zero bytes long.
>>>I have to "make modules_install" and use modprobe on each.
>>>To get the network up on the 11.3 box "modprobe r6189" then "rcnetwork
>>>restart", "modprobe rtl8187", "/etc/init.d/network-remotefs start",
>>>etc., etc.
>>
>>Confused, shouldn't we always run 'make modules_install'?
>>What did you do before that?
>>
>
>As usual a script that does the following and never had problems
>before. It says it's installed the modules, but a check shows they
>are all zero bytes long.
>-------------------------------------------------------------------
>#!/bin/sh
>make -j 4 clean && make headers_install && make -j 4 && make -j 4
>modules_install
>-------------------------------------------------------------------

Hmm, nothing is wrong with this script.

Sounds like a regression, but I don't recall we have any 'module_install'
changes recently.

What does 'make V=2 modules_install' output?

Thanks.