[ltt-dev] [PATCH] Makefile: do not run depmod manually

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Brosseau, Yannick (yannick.brosseau at gmail.com) wrote:
> Salut Thomas,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > The modules_install target of the kernel build infrastructure already
> > runs depmod properly, taking into account the cross-compilation
> 
> That's not exactly true. From the build system we find that:
> # Run depmod only if we have System.map and depmod is executable
> Since we don't have a System.map file in our module tree, this depmod
> execution is mostly a no-op.
> So it is necessary to run a depmod manually after installation.
> 
> It might be something wrong in the kbuild, but I don't know this
> system enough to be able to judge.

I added a comment in the README file to that effect. Thanks,

Mathieu

> 
> Yannick
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