Fwd: depmod fixes for linux-stable releases

Fwd: depmod fixes for linux-stable releases

[Sedat Dilek]

Corrected to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

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---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 2:18 AM
Subject: depmod fixes for linux-stable releases
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-stable@vger.kernel.org>


Hi,

I was CCed on the "depmod: handle the case of /sbin/depmod without
/sbin in PATH" changes to linux-stable releases.

Do you mind also pushing...?

commit 436e980e2ed526832de822cbf13c317a458b78e1
kbuild: don't hardcode depmod path

That was the origin for the depmod follow-up.

Thanks.

Regards,
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[1] https://git.kernel.org/linus/436e980e2ed526832de822cbf13c317a458b78e1

Re: depmod fixes for linux-stable releases

[Sasha Levin]

On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 05:23:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>Ack, I think 436e980e2ed5 ("kbuild: don't hardcode depmod path") is
>stable material even if it doesn't fix a bug.
>
>Not only does the fix for that commit not make sense without the
>commit in the first place, but any environment that sets depmod
>somewhere else might well be an environment that still wants stable
>kernels.
>
>It may not be the traditional case, but there's little reason for the
>kernel build to force that /sbin/depmod location.

I'll take it, thanks!

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha

Re: depmod fixes for linux-stable releases

[Sedat Dilek]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 11:19 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 05:23:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >Ack, I think 436e980e2ed5 ("kbuild: don't hardcode depmod path") is
> >stable material even if it doesn't fix a bug.
> >
> >Not only does the fix for that commit not make sense without the
> >commit in the first place, but any environment that sets depmod
> >somewhere else might well be an environment that still wants stable
> >kernels.
> >
> >It may not be the traditional case, but there's little reason for the
> >kernel build to force that /sbin/depmod location.
>
> I'll take it, thanks!
>

Thanks for pushing (and correcting the stable-ML email-address).

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