Re: [GIT] kbuild fixes for 3.0

Arnaud Lacombe
2011-06-10T03:41:18Z

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> any chance to share your .config ? x86-64's defconfig, plus Michal
>> branch merged on top of the tip of your tree, plus the following patch
>> removing the SUBLEVEL:
>>
>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>> index 72c0e32..5c75864 100644
>> --- a/Makefile
>> +++ b/Makefile
>> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>>  VERSION = 3
>>  PATCHLEVEL = 0
>> -SUBLEVEL = 0
>> +SUBLEVEL =
>>  EXTRAVERSION = -rc2
>>  NAME = Sneaky Weasel
>>
>> install is fine for me. What bugs me is that "git grep '\.temp'" in
>> that tree does not return anything relevant.
>
> "make install" just runs the distro install script, usually
> /sbin/installkernel, which at least on F-14 will then run
> /sbin/new-kernel-pkg /sbin/dracut to build the initrd etc.
>
> And that runs "depmod", which seems to end up being confused: we give
> it the new kernel version as an argument, but it seems to not like it,
> so it decides to do "uname()" to get the _current_ kernel version
> instead, and that is where the confusion comes from.
>
> If it works for you, I suspect you're running a different distribution.
>
Actually, I was just installing as a user with INSTALL_PATH set, so it
did not get until the `new-kernel-pkg' step.

- Arnaud

>                  Linus
>