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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Do not write to builddir in modules_install
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On 13.7.2011 03:05, Américo Wang wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Michal Marek<mmarek@suse.cz>  wrote:
>> Let depmod.sh create a temporary directory in /tmp instead of writing to
>> the build directory as root. The mktemp utility should be available on
>> any recent system (and there is already scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
>> relying on it).
>>
>
> Hmm, why not use $objtree/.tmp_depmod?

That's how it was done before and it's broken. make modules_install is 
usually ran as root and there is no guarantee that root has write access 
to the build directory (it can be on nfs).

Michal