From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: can't build IDE as modules in BK 2.5.69 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 13 May 2003 13:44:12 +1000."
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Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 15:45:41 +1000
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In message <16064.27148.819310.962984@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> you write:
> 
> With the 2.5 bk linux as of 2003.05.13, and config options below,
> modutils seems to go into a seemingly infinite loop when trying to
> buld modules.dep on the resulting module set (and creates an extremely
> large modules.dep file -- 95M before the filesystem filled up)

OK, reproduced here.  I've simplified the depmod loop detection logic:
I was trying to be too clever.  

I've just released 0.9.12, which won't help your IDE problem, but will
terminate 8)

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/people/rusty/modules/module-init-tools-testsuite-0.9.12.tar.gz

Thanks for the report!
Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
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