Re: kbuild: disable depmod in cross-compile kernel build

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Mon Oct 22 2007 - 05:48:34 EST


>
> Euh, is these really necessary?
>
> At work I have no problems running depmod on an i386 system for ppc64 modules
> after I installed module-init-tools 3.3-pre2 (from Debian).
> I did have problems (depmod SEGV) using the depmod that came with CentOS
> 4 (from module-init-tools 3.1-pre5).

The patch was solely done due to people complaining and I even had a bugzilla
entry about it.
I expext Armin or Christian to speak up if this is a real problem for them.

PS. I did not do a revert since the original patch contained a nice cleanup.

Sam

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