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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:51:44 +0800 From: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> To: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@...masters.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] modules: don't call depmod when overriding external module install path On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 08:13:45PM +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@...masters.org> > >Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> > >I leave the Makefile stuff to the kbuild people... > Looks good for me, Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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