Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 02:33:00 +0100
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make make install install modules too
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 01:38:51PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> This is not a good patch IMO.  Many of us do things with scripts to 
> drive the compile process, either in the name of repeatability or 
> consistency.   These scripts may step out of the src tree and go make 
> something else (lm_sensors comes to mind when it wasn't part of the 
> kernel) whose output goes into the /lib/modules/version/ directory so 
> that by the time the make modules_install runs, everything is already 
> in place for the automatic depmod the modules_install does.  We 
> *could* work around it by re-adding the depmod lines to our scripts, 
> but it seems that might be called a kludge too.

Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt answers how to do this "right".  In any
case, there's nothing to stop you changing your scripts from
"make install && do_my_special_thing && make modules_install"
to
"make kernel_install && do_my_special_thing && make modules_install"

-- 
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