Subject: Re: [PATCH] modules: don't call depmod when overriding external
 module install path
From: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:26:33 -0400
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On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 20:13 +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:33:34 pm Jon Masters wrote:
> > Recent kernels include an additional call to depmod during the installation
> > of external kernel modules as a convenience, in order to ensure that those
> > modules are picked up by the module loading tools/initramfs scripts, etc.
> > Although this call is potentially of some value, it should not be made
> > when explicitly setting INSTALL_MOD_PATH to a different location. This
> > avoids creating extraneous modules.* files that will never be used.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>
> 
> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> 
> I leave the Makefile stuff to the kbuild people...

Hey, thanks for forwarding. I figured I would do that, but I see you
already did. And yea, next time I'll ping the Kbuild folks directly.

Jon.


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