4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org
commit 914b087ff9e0e9a399a4927fa30793064afc0178 upstream.
When $DEPMOD is not found, only print a warning instead of exiting with an error message and error status:
Warning: 'make modules_install' requires /sbin/depmod. Please install it. This is probably in the kmod package.
Change the Error to a Warning because "not all build hosts for cross compiling Linux are Linux systems and are able to provide a working port of depmod, especially at the file patch /sbin/depmod."
I.e., "make modules_install" may be used to copy/install the loadable modules files to a target directory on a build system and then transferred to an embedded device where /sbin/depmod is run instead of it being run on the build system.
Fixes: 934193a654c1 ("kbuild: verify that $DEPMOD is installed") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org Reported-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller hns@goldelico.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Lucas De Marchi lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi Cc: Lucas De Marchi lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com Cc: Michal Marek michal.lkml@markovi.net Cc: Jessica Yu jeyu@kernel.org Cc: Chih-Wei Huang cwhuang@linux.org.tw Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com Signed-off-by: Maxim Zhukov mussitantesmortem@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- scripts/depmod.sh | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/scripts/depmod.sh +++ b/scripts/depmod.sh @@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ if ! test -r System.map ; then fi
if [ -z $(command -v $DEPMOD) ]; then - echo "'make modules_install' requires $DEPMOD. Please install it." >&2 + echo "Warning: 'make modules_install' requires $DEPMOD. Please install it." >&2 echo "This is probably in the kmod package." >&2 - exit 1 + exit 0 fi
# older versions of depmod don't support -P <symbol-prefix>