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authorRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>2018-07-01 19:46:06 -0700
committerMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>2018-07-18 01:18:05 +0900
commit934193a654c1f4d0643ddbf4b2529b508cae926e (patch)
tree0bd62686104e242c8c1c31385479664cfb0383e7 /scripts
parentc417fbce98722ad7e384caa8ba6f2e7c5f8672d9 (diff)
kbuild: verify that $DEPMOD is installed
Verify that 'depmod' ($DEPMOD) is installed. This is a partial revert of commit 620c231c7a7f ("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@infradead.org> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> Cc: Chih-Wei Huang <cwhuang@linux.org.tw> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # any kernel since 2012 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/depmod.sh8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/depmod.sh b/scripts/depmod.sh
index 1a6f85e0e6e1..999d585eaa73 100755
--- a/scripts/depmod.sh
+++ b/scripts/depmod.sh
@@ -10,10 +10,16 @@ fi
DEPMOD=$1
KERNELRELEASE=$2
-if ! test -r System.map -a -x "$DEPMOD"; then
+if ! test -r System.map ; then
exit 0
fi
+if [ -z $(command -v $DEPMOD) ]; then
+ echo "'make modules_install' requires $DEPMOD. Please install it." >&2
+ echo "This is probably in the kmod package." >&2
+ exit 1
+fi
+
# older versions of depmod require the version string to start with three
# numbers, so we cheat with a symlink here
depmod_hack_needed=true