From: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 6/9] Ask the kernel source where it will installmodules
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:57:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081030125738.0489d0dd@hcegtvedt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081030105250.3ca61a3c@hcegtvedt>
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:52:50 +0100
Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:32:46 +0200
> "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote:
>
> > From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
> >
> > Originally, $(LINUX26_VERSION) was used to figure out which
> > directory modules would get installed in under /lib/modules. This
> > causes problems when $(LINUX26_VERSION) differs from what version
> > the kernel source thinks it is using because it will try to use
> > depmod in the wrong directory.
> >
>
> I like this stuff, I'll give it a spin and see how it performs. If it
> works well I'll add it to the repo (unless somebody beat me to it).
>
Not present, and the stuff you posted was a little buggy. I cleaned it
up a bit, see the attached patch.
What do people think? I'll add it today/tomorrow unless somebody
objects.
> > This patch adds a new variable $(LINUX26_VERSION_MOD) which resolves
> > to the exact version string that the kernel uses. Module install
> > then uses this value instead of $(LINUX26_VERSION) when running
> > depmod
> >
> > This patch also eliminates the modules.dep target and makes
> > .modules_installed depend on $(LINUX26_DIR)/.configured directly.
> > This is necessary because the value of $(LINUX26_VERSION_MOD) is
> > unavailable before the kernel is unpacked. Trying to use it in a
> > target or dependency name confuses make.
>
> And what about using the $(PROJECT_DIR)/autotools-stamp directory
> instead for the depend file? Follow with the stream, etc... Easier to
> know how to trigger a reinstall as well.
>
I also added this, since I like gathering all the stamp files at one
place for the target installations.
--
Best regards,
Hans-Christian Egtvedt
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-16 20:32 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/9] Typo fix in toolchain/external-toolchain/ext-tool.mk Grant Likely
2008-10-16 20:32 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/9] Fix link flags of mtdutils Grant Likely
2008-10-16 20:51 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-10-16 21:15 ` hartleys
2008-10-16 21:22 ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2008-10-16 21:38 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-10-16 21:47 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-10-16 20:32 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/9] Add support for multilib external toolchains Grant Likely
2008-10-17 16:40 ` Shinya Kuribayashi
2010-01-12 11:06 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2010-01-12 19:15 ` Grant Likely
2008-10-16 20:32 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 4/9] Add Xilinx UARTLITE and MPC5200 PSC device files (serial ports) Grant Likely
2008-10-17 10:24 ` Peter Korsgaard
2008-10-16 20:32 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 5/9] Refactor invocation of make for kernel compiles Grant Likely
2008-10-16 21:55 ` Markus Heidelberg
2008-10-16 23:03 ` Grant Likely
2008-10-16 20:32 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 6/9] Ask the kernel source where it will install modules Grant Likely
2008-10-30 9:52 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 6/9] Ask the kernel source where it will installmodules Hans-Christian Egtvedt
2008-10-30 11:57 ` Hans-Christian Egtvedt [this message]
2008-10-30 13:20 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 6/9] Ask the kernel source where it will install modules Thomas Petazzoni
2008-10-30 13:23 ` Grant Likely
2008-10-30 13:44 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-10-30 13:27 ` Hans-Christian Egtvedt
2008-10-30 14:04 ` Hans-Christian Egtvedt
2008-10-16 20:32 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 7/9] Add last resort setting of $(LINUX26_BINLOC) for kernel image filename Grant Likely
2008-10-16 20:32 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 8/9] RFC: Remove HOSTCFLAGS from kernel compile Grant Likely
2008-10-16 21:09 ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2008-10-16 23:11 ` Grant Likely
2008-10-16 20:33 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 9/9] Add support for cloning Linux git trees Grant Likely
2008-10-16 21:14 ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2008-10-16 23:09 ` Grant Likely
2008-10-17 7:38 ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2008-10-17 10:20 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/9] Typo fix in toolchain/external-toolchain/ext-tool.mk Peter Korsgaard
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