From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:51629 "EHLO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727844AbeHVWhC (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:37:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 21:10:48 +0200 From: Greg KH To: "H. Nikolaus Schaller" Cc: Randy Dunlap , Lucas De Marchi , Lucas De Marchi , Michal Marek , Jessica Yu , Chih-Wei Huang , stable , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Discussions about the Letux Kernel Subject: Re: please revert commit ce8556cca6 "kbuild: verify that $DEPMOD is installed" introduced in v4.18.4. Message-ID: <20180822191048.GA6916@kroah.com> References: <490A46D5-834E-46A9-9106-A31F94344F99@goldelico.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <490A46D5-834E-46A9-9106-A31F94344F99@goldelico.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 08:53:46PM +0200, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > This patch requires that /sbin/depmod is installed and installable on > the build host. > > But not all build hosts for cross compiling Linux are Linux systems > and are able to provide a working port of depmod, especially at the > file patch /sbin/depmod. > > I use, for example, a Darwin system to cross compile Linux and I run > depmod -a on the embedded system once, after installing a new Linux > kernel there. > > I have no problem with seeing a warning, but aborting the build process > is IMHO a bad idea since the previous behaviour didn't harm many people > as far as I see. Probably 99% of people compiling Linux kernels do that > on Linux and 99% of those have depmod installed for optimal operation of > their build host. So IMHO printing the warning is good enough. It needs to be reverted in Linus's tree first before I can revert it in the stable tree(s). thanks, greg k-h