----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Denys Vlasenko" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: "Bernhard Reutner-Fischer" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:28 AM
Subject: Re: [PATCH] depmod -r dummy


> On Tuesday 17 February 2009 14:08, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:00:12PM +0100, Natanael Copa wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >The attatched patch makes it possible to run 'make modules_install'
with
> > >busybox depmod.
> > >
> > >The linux kernel makefile runs depmod -r which is a compatibility
option
> > >that does nothing.
> >
> > Did module-init-tools ever support any depmod -r ?
> > Perhaps fix the kernel instead since it needs (IIRC) module-init-tools
anyway
> > which supposedly never did anything real with -r?
>
> I prefer doing both. Supporting -r gives us a bit more chances
> for growing our user base at the cost of only 8 bits in the binary.
> Quite cheap I'd say.
> --
> vda
>
I have send this patch to Sam  Ravnborg

Gilles

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