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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:33:39 +0800 From: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com> To: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...fusion.mobi> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, linux-modules@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: do not check for ancient modutils tools On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 14:50 -0200, Lucas De Marchi wrote: > scripts/depmod.sh checks for the output of '-V' expecting that it has > module-init-tools in it. It's a hack to prevent users from using > modutils instead of module-init-tools, that only works with 2.4.x > kernels. This however prints an annoying warning for kmod tool, that is > currently replacing module-init-tools. > > Rather than putting another check for kmod's version, just remove it > since users of 2.4.x kernel are unlikely to upgrade to 3.x, and if they > do, let depmod fail in that case because they should know what they are > doing. > > Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...fusion.mobi> Acked-by: WANG Cong <amwang@...hat.com> Thanks. -- 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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