[PATCH] kbuild: Disable depmod in cross-compile kernel build

[Deepak Saxena]

When building embedded systems in a cross-compile environment and
populating a target's file system image, we don't want to run the 
depmod on the host as we may be building for a completely different
architecture. Since there's no such thing as a cross-depmod, we
just disable running depmod in the cross-compile case and we just
run depmod on the target at bootup.

Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 529b904..1705a91 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1032,7 +1032,11 @@ depmod_opts	:= -b $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH) -r
 endif
 PHONY += _modinst_post
 _modinst_post: _modinst_
-	if [ -r System.map -a -x $(DEPMOD) ]; then $(DEPMOD) -ae -F System.map $(depmod_opts) $(KERNELRELEASE); fi
+	@if [ "$(CROSS_COMPILE)" = "" ]; then \
+		if [ -r System.map -a -x $(DEPMOD) ]; then \
+			$(DEPMOD) -ae -F System.map $(depmod_opts) $(KERNELRELEASE); \
+		fi \
+	fi
 
 else # CONFIG_MODULES
 

-- 
Deepak Saxena - dsaxena@xxxxxxxxxxx - http://www.plexity.net 

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