On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 05:40:58PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 05:33, Cong Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 14:50 -0200, Lucas De Marchi wrote: > >> scripts/depmod.sh checks for the output of '-V' expecting that it has > >> module-init-tools in it. It's a hack to prevent users from using > >> modutils instead of module-init-tools, that only works with 2.4.x > >> kernels. This however prints an annoying warning for kmod tool, that is > >> currently replacing module-init-tools.
You could call kmod "module-init-tools 3.13 (compatible; kmod 3)" ;) Just kidding. > >> Rather than putting another check for kmod's version, just remove it > >> since users of 2.4.x kernel are unlikely to upgrade to 3.x, and if they > >> do, let depmod fail in that case because they should know what they are > >> doing. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <[email protected]> > > > > Acked-by: WANG Cong <[email protected]> > > Michal, mind picking this up? The warning it produces with kmod is > really misleading, and the check seems unnecessary these days. I applied it to kbuild.git#rc-fixes and will send it to Linus for 3.3. Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
