[Buildroot] [PATCH 6/9] Ask the kernel source where it will install modules

Hans-Christian Egtvedt hans-christian.egtvedt at atmel.com
Thu Oct 30 13:27:30 UTC 2008


On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:20:18 +0100
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:

> Le Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:32:46 -0600,
> Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> a écrit :
> 
> > Originally, $(LINUX26_VERSION) was used to figure out which
> > directory modules would get installed in under /lib/modules.  This
> > causes problems when $(LINUX26_VERSION) differs from what version
> > the kernel source thinks it is using because it will try to use
> > depmod in the wrong directory.
> 
> Just for curiosity, in what cases $(LINUX26_VERSION) can differ from
> the « version the kernel source thinks it is using » ?
> 

Vendor specific patch to a kernel, which adds localversion file or
changes the top level Makefile.

Example: 2.6.25.10.atmel.2, which is a patch based on the 2.6.25.10
kernel.

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Best regards,
Hans-Christian Egtvedt



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