From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to avoid that install.sh goes mad, if I am not root?
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:49:37 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ihbvd1$jbj$3@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 19768.44428.482148.361069@pilspetsen.it.uu.se
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:47:56 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>
> First, at least on x86, the kernel will look for the 'installkernel'
> executable first in your own ~/bin/, so if you have that then it will
> override /sbin/installkernel.
>
That still doesn't look like a good solution.
/me is thinking if we should have a new Kconfig for this, e.g.
CONFIG_INSTALL_KERNEL whose default value is "/sbin/installkernel".
Cheers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-21 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-20 19:16 how to avoid that install.sh goes mad, if I am not root? Harald Dunkel
2011-01-20 21:47 ` Mikael Pettersson
2011-01-21 12:49 ` WANG Cong [this message]
2011-01-21 22:08 ` Harald Dunkel
2011-01-24 10:21 ` [Patch] make installkernel configurable from command line (was Re: how to avoid that install.sh goes mad, if I am not root?) Américo Wang
2011-01-24 11:43 ` Mikael Pettersson
2011-01-25 5:48 ` Américo Wang
2011-01-26 10:02 ` Mikael Pettersson
2011-01-28 7:58 ` WANG Cong
2011-01-28 7:58 ` WANG Cong
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