Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Do not write to builddir in modules_install

[Christian Kujau]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 at 19:22, AmÃrico Wang wrote:
> >> Hmm, why not use $objtree/.tmp_depmod?
> >
> > That's how it was done before and it's broken. make modules_install is
> > usually ran as root and there is no guarantee that root has write access to
> > the build directory (it can be on nfs).
> 
> Hmm, this is reasonable. Then I am fine with this patch.

Tested here, works fine, even with a noexec-mounted $TMPDIR. Thanks!

Christian.
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