Re: [GIT] kbuild fixes for 3.0

Linus Torvalds
2011-06-10T03:37:56Z

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.

Linus