From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
Jonas Karlman <jonas@kwiboo.se>,
Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "Makefile: install modules.builtin even if CONFIG_MODULES=n"
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:47:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200619074738.GB1427@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200619044823.863461-1-masahiroy@kernel.org>
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 01:48:23PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> This reverts commit e0b250b57dcf403529081e5898a9de717f96b76b.
>
> Now that "make install" copies modules.builtin to $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH),
> it breaks systems that do not set INSTALL_MOD_PATH for "make install".
>
> While modules.builtin is useful for CONFIG_MODULES=n, this way gives
> unexpected impact to existing systems. Maybe "make modules_install"
> can install modules.builtin irrespective of CONFIG_MODULES as Jonas
> originally suggested. Anyway, this commit should be reverted ASAP.
What is the "unexpected impact? This commit log needs to explain
that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-19 7:47 UTC|newest]
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2020-06-19 4:48 Masahiro Yamada
2020-06-19 7:47 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-06-19 13:16 ` Guenter Roeck
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