Simple 'make modules_install' patch

Nicholas R LeRoy (nick.leroy@norland.com)
Tue, 7 Dec 1999 08:57:37 -0600


Hello, all...

Seems to me that the top-level Makefile, after doing a modules_install
should do a depmod to create the modules.dep. At least on SuSE 6.2,
after installing a new kernel, you need to hand run depmod before
booting the new kernel, and I seem to forget to do this step more often
than not.

Here's a simple little one-line patch to do just that. Thoughts?
Flames? Outright hatred?

-Nick

diff -c -r1.1 Makefile
*** Makefile 1999/12/07 14:37:33 1.1
--- Makefile 1999/12/07 14:40:37
***************
*** 345,350 ****
--- 345,351 ----
if [ -s $$MODLIB/.misc ]; then inst_mod $$MODLIB/.misc misc; fi; \
rm -f $$MODLIB/.misc $$MODLIB/.allmods; \
)
+ depmod -a -F System.map $(KERNELRELEASE)

# modules disabled....

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