Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc3] kbuild: When checking depmod version, redirect stderr

[Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:24:32PM -0700, randy_dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 07:56:36 -0700 Tom Rini wrote:
> 
> > When running depmod to check for the correct version number, extra
> > output we don't need to see, such as "depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not
> > implemented" may show up.  Redirect stderr to /dev/null as the version
> > information that we do care about comes to stdout.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
> > 
> > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> > --- a/Makefile
> > +++ b/Makefile
> > @@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ modules_install: _modinst_ _modinst_post
> >  
> >  .PHONY: _modinst_
> >  _modinst_:
> > -	@if [ -z "`$(DEPMOD) -V | grep module-init-tools`" ]; then \
> > +	@if [ -z "`$(DEPMOD) -V 2>/dev/null | grep module-init-tools`" ]; then \
> >  		echo "Warning: you may need to install module-init-tools"; \
> >  		echo "See http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt";\
> >  		sleep 1; \
> 
> Well, seeing "QM_MODULES" is a great indicator that someone is using
> modutils instead of module-init-tools, so I'd like to see it stay.
> IOW, I somewhat disagree with "extra output we don't need to see."

This shows up when building a 2.6 kernel with incorrect tools installed.
What shows up when building a 2.6 kernel on a 2.4 machine that's
properly setup to do both is "depmod: Can't open
/lib/modules/.../modules.dep for writing".

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Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/