Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:50:42 +0000 | From | James Hogan <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] depmod: pass -P $CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX |
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Hi Michal,
On 31/01/13 10:37, Michal Marek wrote: > On 31.1.2013 10:41, James Hogan wrote: >> On architectures which have symbol prefixes, depmod emits lots of false >> warnings like this: >> >> WARNING: $module.ko needs unknown symbol $symbol >> >> This is because depmod isn't being passed the -P <symbol_prefix> >> arguments to specify the symbol prefix to ignore. This option is >> included since the 3.13 release of module-init-tools. >> >> Update scripts/depmod.sh to take extra arguments which are passed >> through directly to depmod, and update the main Makefile to pass >> -P $(CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX to scripts/depmod.sh, but only if >> CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is set and non-empty. > > OK. > > >> scripts/depmod.sh also drops the -P arguments if depmod --version >> reports module-init-tools with a version number < 3.13. > > You can replace the test with a simple > > "$DEPMOD" -P _ --help 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
Thanks for the suggestion. It would be much cleaner, but unfortunately I tried this on module-init-tools 3.3-pre2 and module-init-tools 3.9 and both still return success.
Cheers James
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