Re: [PATCH] kbuild: do not check for ancient modutils tools

[Cong Wang]

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.
> 
> 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 <lucas.demarchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: WANG Cong <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.


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