linux-kernel - [PATCH v4] modules_install: make missing $DEPMOD a Warning instead of an Error

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Message-ID: <07334982-98f0-561e-f8a1-ba42e36da80e@infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:59:10 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@...delico.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...fusion.mobi>,
        Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        Chih-Wei Huang <cwhuang@...ux.org.tw>
Subject: [PATCH v4] modules_install: make missing $DEPMOD a Warning instead of
 an Error

From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>

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@...radead.org>
Reported-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@...delico.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...fusion.mobi>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>
Cc: Chih-Wei Huang <cwhuang@...ux.org.tw>
Cc: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@...delico.com>
---
v2: add missing "exit 0" and update the commit message (no Error).
v3: add Fixes: and Cc: stable
v4: add Reported-by: and more explanation for the patch.

 scripts/depmod.sh |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- lnx-418.orig/scripts/depmod.sh
+++ lnx-418/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 require the version string to start with three