Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 16:18:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 16:18:41 -0500 Received: from chaos.physics.uiowa.edu ([128.255.34.189]:44172 "EHLO chaos.physics.uiowa.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 16:18:40 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:28:05 -0600 (CST) From: Kai Germaschewski X-X-Sender: kai@chaos.physics.uiowa.edu To: Sam Ravnborg cc: Bill Davidsen , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [2.5.63] aha152x, module issues In-Reply-To: <20030304204328.GA7271@mars.ravnborg.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1038 Lines: 24 On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 05:11:10PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > scripts/Makefile.modinst:16: *** Uh-oh, you have stale module entries. You messed with SUBDIRS, do not complain if something goes wrong. > > This happens if you have encountered a compile error in a module. > In this case you did not succeed the compilation of fs/binfmt_aout, > and therefore no .o file can be located. > kbuild assumes this is because you have messed with SUBDIRS, which is wrong. > > Kai - the following patch fixes this for me. Hmmh, interesting. The patch looks good to me, but there's still one thing I don't understand: When compiling a module errors out, we should never even go into the module postprocessing stage. Or were you running with -k? --Kai - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/