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Message-ID: <510A4967.5070009@suse.cz>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:37:27 +0100
From: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To: James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
uclinux-dist-devel@...ckfin.uclinux.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] depmod: pass -P $CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX
On 31.1.2013 10:41, James Hogan wrote:
> On architectures which have symbol prefixes, depmod emits lots of false
> warnings like this:
>
> WARNING: $module.ko needs unknown symbol $symbol
>
> This is because depmod isn't being passed the -P <symbol_prefix>
> arguments to specify the symbol prefix to ignore. This option is
> included since the 3.13 release of module-init-tools.
>
> Update scripts/depmod.sh to take extra arguments which are passed
> through directly to depmod, and update the main Makefile to pass
> -P $(CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX to scripts/depmod.sh, but only if
> CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is set and non-empty.
OK.
> scripts/depmod.sh also drops the -P arguments if depmod --version
> reports module-init-tools with a version number < 3.13.
You can replace the test with a simple
"$DEPMOD" -P _ --help 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
Michal
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