From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D28BC4321D for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:10:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E634A2098B for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:10:58 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kroah.com header.i=@kroah.com header.b="NIx0MQUh"; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=messagingengine.com header.i=@messagingengine.com header.b="DAQ5wlpT" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org E634A2098B Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=kroah.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728115AbeHVWhD (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:37:03 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:51629 "EHLO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727844AbeHVWhC (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:37:02 -0400 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E67F2202D; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:10:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailfrontend1 ([10.202.2.162]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:10:53 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kroah.com; h=cc :content-type:date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :references:subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s= fm1; bh=AUVPUB5tuhTA8MiFEJWTVwjoErieBseO6muomaAvl/4=; b=NIx0MQUh 88aGwbm4txqJ/JP55twkm+dYBCu2NbdHsNLIOxpo71M4fnH0M9XuyJgFCcyWUfcr THXegZoJ0/Uf02RbSXh16vKdHhxx5dbn597juaAk+HmgFLIV3VyC948Dp1FkO5ff 1yZ+iXA/3oQLdAgIPY2Moo9ODYSADO1vsVRsppGmOVPLml68TQp9IbZBCcGjksz4 RM/PgXUFDfWaW6kLstxHuvJkMCslM3OJjlf01eua/ODNBrKGkIrR4KscsJFH0SsL 6HyeuI+naPgLKb4euclxg+xZizxm/BgnF2v55vdM9E2QjtCiB41SCU7TGyYy4e2s sM6V00QaNyMG9g== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm3; bh=AUVPUB5tuhTA8MiFEJWTVwjoErieB seO6muomaAvl/4=; b=DAQ5wlpTKb/GY0kUApfGSmpjNpn0YxGiaLErP0zpPS0Sf g7yyD2AxbBZEhoZsNvKjdh7WBu+GXYmaUCOl3W6/Oi2EycRrmGM8BXPRG28ab9jB 51qJFt/h2dPsBmUwqU4RH/wQUTLhTNdyS7AFa0K7Nx15jZNjuJ2g/5rKVUWYjN0i 8EVwWN0NNDGORQhaKMsDmAEJ+r7aa4vOg1QVNn2ufb9R6Cnu/Qe4HIPmlUGv9IYC pSvYCwbPrfjl6nYIev97RO654FVHp2nNZ1CTffZ9NNsjzmumjxNXwHArHkORqcxV H8hn6MxQvZytq+V6+/zYE/34+cibdAc+ar5mpOnbw== X-ME-Proxy: X-ME-Sender: Received: from localhost (5355525a.cm-6-6b.dynamic.ziggo.nl [83.85.82.90]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 94F4EE47C7; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:10:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 21:10:48 +0200 From: Greg KH To: "H. Nikolaus Schaller" Cc: Randy Dunlap , Lucas De Marchi , Lucas De Marchi , Michal Marek , Jessica Yu , Chih-Wei Huang , stable , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Discussions about the Letux Kernel Subject: Re: please revert commit ce8556cca6 "kbuild: verify that $DEPMOD is installed" introduced in v4.18.4. Message-ID: <20180822191048.GA6916@kroah.com> References: <490A46D5-834E-46A9-9106-A31F94344F99@goldelico.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <490A46D5-834E-46A9-9106-A31F94344F99@goldelico.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 08:53:46PM +0200, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > This patch requires that /sbin/depmod is installed and installable on > the build host. > > But not all build hosts for cross compiling Linux are Linux systems > and are able to provide a working port of depmod, especially at the > file patch /sbin/depmod. > > I use, for example, a Darwin system to cross compile Linux and I run > depmod -a on the embedded system once, after installing a new Linux > kernel there. > > I have no problem with seeing a warning, but aborting the build process > is IMHO a bad idea since the previous behaviour didn't harm many people > as far as I see. Probably 99% of people compiling Linux kernels do that > on Linux and 99% of those have depmod installed for optimal operation of > their build host. So IMHO printing the warning is good enough. It needs to be reverted in Linus's tree first before I can revert it in the stable tree(s). thanks, greg k-h