From: Matt Reppert <arashi@arashi.yi.org>
To: wz6b@arrl.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: 2.5.50 Up and running but
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 01:21:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021212012101.238ae459.arashi@arashi.yi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200212112259.10079.wz6b@arrl.net>
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 22:59:10 -0800
Matt Young <wz6b@arrl.net> wrote:
> Boot couldn't find the module dependency file, even though I did make modules
> and make modules_install
Yeah, the make rule for depmod got removed in one of the module merges. This
will put it back. (Untested, my init scripts run depmod so it's not a big deal
for me.) Rusty, am I being stupid or is this okay now that depmod works?
--- a/Makefile Sun Nov 10 19:05:55 2002
+++ b/Makefile Fri Nov 8 20:08:32 2002
@@ -157,7 +157,6 @@
OBJDUMP = $(CROSS_COMPILE)objdump
AWK = awk
GENKSYMS = /sbin/genksyms
+DEPMOD = /sbin/depmod
KALLSYMS = /sbin/kallsyms
PERL = perl
MODFLAGS = -DMODULE
@@ -516,7 +515,7 @@
# Install modules
.PHONY: modules_install
-modules_install: _modinst_ $(patsubst %, _modinst_%, $(SUBDIRS))
+modules_install: _modinst_ $(patsubst %, _modinst_%, $(SUBDIRS)) _modinst_post
.PHONY: _modinst_
_modinst_:
@@ -524,20 +523,6 @@
@rm -f $(MODLIB)/build
@mkdir -p $(MODLIB)/kernel
@ln -s $(TOPDIR) $(MODLIB)/build
+
+# If System.map exists, run depmod. This deliberately does not have a
+# dependency on System.map since that would run the dependency tree on
+# vmlinux. This depmod is only for convenience to give the initial
+# boot a modules.dep even before / is mounted read-write. However the
+# boot script depmod is the master version.
+ifeq "$(strip $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH))" ""
+depmod_opts :=
+else
+depmod_opts := -b $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH) -r
+endif
+.PHONY: _modinst_post
+_modinst_post:
+ if [ -r System.map ]; then $(DEPMOD) -ae -F System.map $(depmod_opts) $(KERNELRELEASE); fi
.PHONY: $(patsubst %, _modinst_%, $(SUBDIRS))
$(patsubst %, _modinst_%, $(SUBDIRS)) :
.
> Also the make config did not select the right Intel processor
???
> nor is there a mouse driver
What kind of mouse? What config option?
Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-12 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-12 6:59 Matt Young
2002-12-12 7:21 ` Matt Reppert [this message]
2002-12-12 22:20 ` Rusty Russell
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