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From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] make installkernel configurable from command line (was Re: how to avoid that install.sh goes mad, if I am not root?)
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:58:07 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ihtsue$921$2@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 19775.61731.753606.576942@pilspetsen.it.uu.se

On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:02:11 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> 
> Tested.  This works as far as not overriding root's ~/bin/installkernel
> if it exists, but it fails to give precedence to an explicit
> command-line INSTALLKERNEL=... over the built-in fallbacks.  I don't see
> an easy way to fix that without first consolidating all archs'
> INSTALLKERNEL handling into the top-level Makefile.


Yes, exactly, I can expect this.

> 
> Not using make install and just invoking your own install script
> directly works, so I'm not sure this is worth the trouble (unless you
> can unify all archs' INSTALLKERNEL handling as a side-effect / cleanup).

Agreed, I will have a try.

Thanks!


      reply	other threads:[~2011-01-28  8:45 UTC|newest]

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2011-01-26 10:02             ` [Patch] make installkernel configurable from command line (was Re: how to avoid that install.sh goes mad, if I am not root?) Mikael Pettersson
2011-01-28  7:58               ` WANG Cong [this message]

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