CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO recently broken

CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO recently broken

[David S. Miller]

For some reason it isn't post-pending the local GIT version
string to the destination module directory so the modules
get installed in the wrong place and upon reboot are not found.

This started happening some time within the last 2 days.

Any ideas? :-)

Re: CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO recently broken

[sam]

>
> For some reason it isn't post-pending the local GIT version
> string to the destination module directory so the modules
> get installed in the wrong place and upon reboot are not found.
>
> This started happening some time within the last 2 days.
>
> Any ideas? :-)
You do not have git installed so root can find them, and you install
modules as root - this causes the wrong KERNELRELEASE to be defined.
Obviously it is not the right fix to install git in a 'root' location so
I have implemented a solution in my tree where we only update
KERNELRELEASE when we build a kernel.
This solution required that "make install" do not try to update vmlinux -
so this dependency is now zapped.
I do not have access to my linux box atm, but you can find the patches in
lkml archieves and at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild.git

I've asked Linus to pull so we get this fix propagated soonish.

     Sam