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From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
	Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
	uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] depmod: pass -P $CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:37:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <510A4967.5070009@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1359625303-11842-1-git-send-email-james.hogan@imgtec.com>

On 31.1.2013 10:41, James Hogan wrote:
> On architectures which have symbol prefixes, depmod emits lots of false
> warnings like this:
> 
> WARNING: $module.ko needs unknown symbol $symbol
> 
> This is because depmod isn't being passed the -P <symbol_prefix>
> arguments to specify the symbol prefix to ignore. This option is
> included since the 3.13 release of module-init-tools.
> 
> Update scripts/depmod.sh to take extra arguments which are passed
> through directly to depmod, and update the main Makefile to pass
> -P $(CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX to scripts/depmod.sh, but only if
> CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is set and non-empty.

OK.


> scripts/depmod.sh also drops the -P arguments if depmod --version
> reports module-init-tools with a version number < 3.13.

You can replace the test with a simple

"$DEPMOD" -P _ --help 2>/dev/null >/dev/null

Michal

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-31 10:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-31  9:41 [PATCH 1/1] depmod: pass -P $CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX James Hogan
2013-01-31 10:37 ` Michal Marek [this message]
2013-01-31 10:50   ` James Hogan
2013-01-31 11:11     ` Michal Marek
2013-02-03  6:17 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-02-05 10:33   ` James Hogan
2013-02-05 23:18     ` Mike Frysinger

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