Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: verify that $DEPMOD is installed

[Masahiro Yamada]

2018-07-02 11:46 GMT+09:00 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Verify that 'depmod' ($DEPMOD) is installed.
> This is a partial revert of 620c231c7a7f (from 2012):
>   ("kbuild: do not check for ancient modutils tools")
>
> Also update Documentation/process/changes.rst to refer to
> kmod instead of module-init-tools.
>
> Fixes kernel bugzilla #198965:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198965
>
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Chih-Wei Huang <cwhuang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # any kernel since 2012

Applied to linux-kbuild. Thanks!




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Masahiro Yamada