From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: torvalds@transmeta.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] (Again) Revert module directory hierarchy and depmod invocation
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:11:54 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021214014915.789EE2C51C@lists.samba.org> (raw)
[As Greg Kroah-Hartman pointed out, wrong patch appended last time.]
Linus, please apply.
While the kernel, depmod et. al. don't care, other tools want the
directory hierarchy under /lib/modules/`uname -r`/. Sure, it's bogus
for them to rely on kernel source layout, but noone has come up with a
better alternative, so revert.
NOTE: You *still* can't have two modules of the same name! (You never
could).
Thanks,
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
Name: Revert depmod and hierarchy changes
Author: Rusty Russell
Status: Tested on 2.5.51
D: module-init-tools 0.9 and newer supply a replacement depmod, so
D: it's safe to run again. Also, some external programs like PCMCIA
D: and mkinitrd really want the directory hierarchy in /lib/modules
D: back again: it makes no difference to the tools (since 0.9), so
D: revert it.
diff -urNp --exclude TAGS -X /home/rusty/current-dontdiff --minimal linux-2.5.51/Makefile working-2.5.51-revert-dirs/Makefile
--- linux-2.5.51/Makefile Tue Dec 10 15:56:46 2002
+++ working-2.5.51-revert-dirs/Makefile Fri Dec 13 09:18:06 2002
@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ OBJCOPY = $(CROSS_COMPILE)objcopy
OBJDUMP = $(CROSS_COMPILE)objdump
AWK = awk
GENKSYMS = /sbin/genksyms
+DEPMOD = /sbin/depmod
KALLSYMS = scripts/kallsyms
PERL = perl
MODFLAGS = -DMODULE
@@ -534,7 +535,7 @@ modules: $(SUBDIRS)
# Install modules
.PHONY: modules_install
-modules_install: _modinst_ $(patsubst %, _modinst_%, $(SUBDIRS))
+modules_install: _modinst_ $(patsubst %, _modinst_%, $(SUBDIRS)) _modinst_post
.PHONY: _modinst_
_modinst_:
@@ -542,6 +543,20 @@ _modinst_:
@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)) :
diff -urNp --exclude TAGS -X /home/rusty/current-dontdiff --minimal linux-2.5.51/scripts/Makefile.modinst working-2.5.51-revert-dirs/scripts/Makefile.modinst
--- linux-2.5.51/scripts/Makefile.modinst Tue Dec 10 15:56:54 2002
+++ working-2.5.51-revert-dirs/scripts/Makefile.modinst Fri Dec 13 09:28:42 2002
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ include scripts/Makefile.lib
# ==========================================================================
quiet_cmd_modules_install = INSTALL $(obj-m:.o=.ko)
- cmd_modules_install = mkdir -p $(MODLIB)/kernel && \
- cp $(obj-m:.o=.ko) $(MODLIB)/kernel/
+ cmd_modules_install = mkdir -p $(MODLIB)/kernel/$(obj); \
+ cp $(obj-m:.o=.ko) $(MODLIB)/kernel/$(obj)
modules_install: $(subdir-ym)
ifneq ($(obj-m:.o=.ko),)
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