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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] depmod -r dummy
From:       Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-02-19 8:18:37
Message-ID: 20090219081837.GA31812 () mx ! loc
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 07:57:24AM +0100, Gilles Espinasse wrote:
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Denys Vlasenko" <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
>To: <busybox@busybox.net>
>Cc: "Bernhard Reutner-Fischer" <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
>Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:28 AM
>Subject: Re: [PATCH] depmod -r dummy
>
>
>> On Tuesday 17 February 2009 14:08, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
>> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:00:12PM +0100, Natanael Copa wrote:
>> > >Hi,
>> > >
>> > >The attatched patch makes it possible to run 'make modules_install'
>with
>> > >busybox depmod.
>> > >
>> > >The linux kernel makefile runs depmod -r which is a compatibility
>option
>> > >that does nothing.
>> >
>> > Did module-init-tools ever support any depmod -r ?
>> > Perhaps fix the kernel instead since it needs (IIRC) module-init-tools
>anyway
>> > which supposedly never did anything real with -r?
>>
>> I prefer doing both. Supporting -r gives us a bit more chances
>> for growing our user base at the cost of only 8 bits in the binary.
>> Quite cheap I'd say.
>> --
>> vda
>>
>I have send this patch to Sam  Ravnborg

thanks, but it was already recorded by Natanael here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12736
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