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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:13:28 +0200
From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [GIT] kbuild fixes for 3.0
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On 10.6.2011 05:57, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Arnaud Lacombe<lacombar@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> For the record, this should have been fixed by Michal in:
>
> You're missing the problem: we can't assume that people have updated user land.
>
> Furthermore, the very pull request I'm responding to actually tries to
> handle this, see commit bfe5424a8b31 ("kbuild: Hack for depmod not
> handling X.Y versions"), but it's just not working for me.

It handles what can be handled inside the kernel build, i.e. the depmod 
called from the Makefile during modules_install.


> And it's not working, because it only handles the "modules_install"
> case, not the case where the system install scripts do their own
> depmod.

Yes, tools creating an initrd would need a similar workaround, that's a 
pity :-(.

Michal
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