From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Finger Subject: Re: [Bug #11355] Regression in 2.6.27-rc2 when cross-building the kernel Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:51:26 -0500 Message-ID: <48BC1D8E.9050608@lwfinger.net> References: <200808242334.05993.rjw@sisk.pl> <1220261720.2982.51.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1220261720.2982.51.camel-ZP4jZrcIevRpWr+L1FloEB2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: David Woodhouse Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Sam Ravnborg , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 23:34 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> On Saturday, 23 of August 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >>> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report >>> of recent regressions. >>> >>> The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions >>> from 2.6.26. Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know >>> (either way). >>> >>> >>> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11355 >>> Subject : Regression in 2.6.27-rc2 when cross-building the kernel >>> Submitter : Larry Finger >>> Date : 2008-08-16 2:38 (8 days old) >>> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121885432118368&w=4 >> As I wrote in the Bugzilla, I'm seeing a related problem. >> >> Namely, I build kernels on one box, with 'make O=', then I mount >> on another one over NFS, 'cd' to it and try to install the kernel >> modules with 'make modules_install'. This results in 'HOSTCC firmware/ihex2fw' >> and 'fatal error: ...: Read-only file system'. It's readily reproducible. >> >> Commenting out line 1130 of Makefile >> ("$(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.fwinst obj=firmware __fw_modinst") >> obviously helps, so it looks like Makefile.fwinst needs fixing. > > I don't like this much, but it should do the trick... please confirm. Yes, the patch fixes the problem. Thanks. Larry From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756723AbYIAQvc (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:51:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751876AbYIAQvY (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:51:24 -0400 Received: from mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.115]:60209 "EHLO mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751182AbYIAQvY (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:51:24 -0400 Message-ID: <48BC1D8E.9050608@lwfinger.net> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:51:26 -0500 From: Larry Finger User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20071114) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Woodhouse CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Sam Ravnborg , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [Bug #11355] Regression in 2.6.27-rc2 when cross-building the kernel References: <200808242334.05993.rjw@sisk.pl> <1220261720.2982.51.camel@pmac.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1220261720.2982.51.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 23:34 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> On Saturday, 23 of August 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >>> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report >>> of recent regressions. >>> >>> The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions >>> from 2.6.26. Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know >>> (either way). >>> >>> >>> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11355 >>> Subject : Regression in 2.6.27-rc2 when cross-building the kernel >>> Submitter : Larry Finger >>> Date : 2008-08-16 2:38 (8 days old) >>> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121885432118368&w=4 >> As I wrote in the Bugzilla, I'm seeing a related problem. >> >> Namely, I build kernels on one box, with 'make O=', then I mount >> on another one over NFS, 'cd' to it and try to install the kernel >> modules with 'make modules_install'. This results in 'HOSTCC firmware/ihex2fw' >> and 'fatal error: ...: Read-only file system'. It's readily reproducible. >> >> Commenting out line 1130 of Makefile >> ("$(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.fwinst obj=firmware __fw_modinst") >> obviously helps, so it looks like Makefile.fwinst needs fixing. > > I don't like this much, but it should do the trick... please confirm. Yes, the patch fixes the problem. Thanks. Larry