Re: [GIT] kbuild fixes for 3.0

Michal Marek
2011-06-10T12:13:36Z

On 10.6.2011 05:57, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Arnaud Lacombe<lacombar@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> For the record, this should have been fixed by Michal in:
>
> You're missing the problem: we can't assume that people have updated user land.
>
> Furthermore, the very pull request I'm responding to actually tries to
> handle this, see commit bfe5424a8b31 ("kbuild: Hack for depmod not
> handling X.Y versions"), but it's just not working for me.

It handles what can be handled inside the kernel build, i.e. the depmod
called from the Makefile during modules_install.

> And it's not working, because it only handles the "modules_install"
> case, not the case where the system install scripts do their own
> depmod.

Yes, tools creating an initrd would need a similar workaround, that's a
pity :-(.

Michal