linux-kernel - Re: depmod fixes for linux-stable releases

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Message-ID: <CA+icZUX_DBcoPP59FTOQKMJLLLUJyppouLT0oCu2Ji49HepaAg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 10 Jan 2021 18:20:56 +0100
From:   Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: depmod fixes for linux-stable releases

On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 11:19 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 05:23:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >Ack, I think 436e980e2ed5 ("kbuild: don't hardcode depmod path") is
> >stable material even if it doesn't fix a bug.
> >
> >Not only does the fix for that commit not make sense without the
> >commit in the first place, but any environment that sets depmod
> >somewhere else might well be an environment that still wants stable
> >kernels.
> >
> >It may not be the traditional case, but there's little reason for the
> >kernel build to force that /sbin/depmod location.
>
> I'll take it, thanks!
>

Thanks for pushing (and correcting the stable-ML email-address).

- Sedat -