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From: "Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.ml.walleij@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: modules.dep and depmod.pl
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:45:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8bd0f97a0806131645l69d9c3c8x727c3edd0cad5975@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63386a3d0806131633g4721216al566c8b6959e4631@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> what are other embedded developers experience with using the
> script "depmod.pl" from BusyBox to create
> installdir/lib/modules/<version>/modules.dep
> during compile-time?

it's used in the uClinux distribution and works fine for me.  only had
problems when there are multiple kernel versions, but never had a
problem with a single.

> Is there anyone beside me who would like to see this integrated
> into scripts/ in the kernel to get some default modules.dep for
> a read-only rootfs also when doing cross compilation, or am I
> totally going down the wrong lane here?

seems like a worthwhile step to me
-mike

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-13 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <63386a3d0806131611g61ad6ab1t16bc68ab6407a8dc@mail.gmail.com>
2008-06-13 23:33 ` modules.dep and depmod.pl Linus Walleij
2008-06-13 23:45   ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2008-06-14 17:00     ` Bernhard Fischer
2008-06-14  6:51   ` Dave Hylands
2008-06-14 19:23     ` Linus Walleij
2008-06-14  9:26   ` Matthieu castet
2008-06-14 19:38     ` Linus Walleij

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