Re: [PATCH v3] depmod: Handle installing modules under a prefix

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Fri Jul 14 2023 - 10:42:20 EST



On Friday 2023-07-14 16:30, Michal Suchánek wrote:
>> >
>> > -MODLIB = $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)
>> > +export KERNEL_MODULE_PREFIX := $(shell kmod config &> /dev/null && kmod config | jq -r .module_prefix)
>>
>> All other calls of `jq` that I could find are located at tools/; as this here
>> is evaluated on each invocation, this should probably be documented in
>> Documentation/process/changes.rst?
>>
>> (Absence of `jq` will cause error messages, even with CONFIG_MODULES=n.)
>
>That's a good point.

Speaking of which, "&>" is a bashism and probably should be replaced.