Re: [PATCH] make make install install modules too

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 09:22:46AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 06:00:51PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > 
> > I keep forgetting to run 'make modules_install' after make install.  Since
> > make now compiles modules too and there's no separate make modules step,
> > it seems to make sense that make install should also install modules.
> 
> No, we do not want to change such basic behaviour.
> So many poeple are used to current scheme with:
> make modules_install && make install
> 
> that it would't be worth breaking their ways of working.

Ehm, this wouldn't _break_ them.  They'd just end up installing modules
twice.

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