From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 5 May 2002 09:39:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 5 May 2002 09:39:01 -0400 Received: from CPE-203-51-25-114.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([203.51.25.114]:32252 "EHLO e4.eyal.emu.id.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 5 May 2002 09:39:00 -0400 Message-ID: <3CD535F3.1193069@eyal.emu.id.au> Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 23:38:59 +1000 From: Eyal Lebedinsky Organization: Eyal at Home X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.19-pre8-aa2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Keith Owens CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.19pre8aa2 In-Reply-To: <4003.1020585881@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Keith Owens wrote: > > On Sun, 05 May 2002 17:40:56 +1000, > Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > >You are right, it is not the unresolved that caused it but the non > >ELF objects in there (it used not to care before): > > > ># /sbin/depmod-2.4.15 -ae ; echo $? > >depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.19-pre8-aa2/ksyms is not an ELF file > >depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.19-pre8-aa2/soundconf is not an ELF file > >1 > > All versions of depmod for 2.4 have always returned errors for invalid > objects in /lib/modules, that check has not changed since modutils > 2.4.0. modutils has not changed, somebody is storing extra text files > in /lib/modules without telling modutils. Don't do that. > > Who created the ksyms and soundconf files? I do. Since I have many kernels built, my build script copies the important bits into there. I have done this for many years now (as can be seen by the ancient 'soundconf' still being copied) without any problems. /lib/modules is the only per-kernel area on my machine and it is the most natural place to keep these files. The failure started showing up only later in 2.4, I do not remember exactly when but it is many months ago now. The 'not an ELF' message was non fatal until then. I was pretty much keeping up with the modutils releases. -- Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au)