Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] depmod: Handle installing modules under a different directory

[Woody Suwalski <terraluna977@gmail.com>]

Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 4:48 AM Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de> wrote:
>> Some distributions aim at shipping all files in /usr.
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>> The path under which kernel modules are installed is hardcoded to /lib
>> which conflicts with this goal.
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>> When kmod provides kmod.pc, use it to determine the correct module
>> installation path.
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>> With kmod that does not provide the config /lib/modules is used as
>> before.
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>> While pkg-config does not return an error when a variable does not exist
>> the kmod configure script puts some effort into ensuring that
>> module_directory is non-empty. With that empty module_directory from
>> pkg-config can be used to detect absence of the variable.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
>> ---
>> v6:
>>   - use ?= instead of := to make it easier to override the value
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> "KERNEL_MODULE_DIRECTORY=/local/usr/lib/modules make modules_install"
> will override the install destination, but
> depmod will not be not aware of it.
>
> How to avoid the depmod error?
>
>
I think the depmod -b option can be used to ran depmod in an arbitrary 
location:

The following options are useful for people managing distributions:
     -b, --basedir=DIR    Use an image of a module tree.

Woody

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>>   - use shorter expression for determining the module directory assuming
>>     it's non-empty
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>>   Makefile | 4 +++-
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>> index 511b5616aa41..84f32bd563d4 100644
>> --- a/Makefile
>> +++ b/Makefile
>> @@ -1081,7 +1081,9 @@ export INSTALL_DTBS_PATH ?= $(INSTALL_PATH)/dtbs/$(KERNELRELEASE)
>>   # makefile but the argument can be passed to make if needed.
>>   #
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>> -MODLIB = $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)
>> +export KERNEL_MODULE_DIRECTORY ?= $(or $(shell pkg-config --variable=module_directory kmod 2>/dev/null),/lib/modules)
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>> +MODLIB = $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)$(KERNEL_MODULE_DIRECTORY)/$(KERNELRELEASE)
>>   export MODLIB
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>>   PHONY += prepare0
>> --
>> 2.42.0
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> --
> Best Regards
> Masahiro Yamada