This patch bumps Linux CIP RT to version 4.19.198-cip54-rt21
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
This patch bumps Linux CIP to version 4.19.198-cip54.
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Includes fixes for the recent "Sequoia" seq_file vulnerability
(CVE-2021-33909):
https://lwn.net/Articles/863729/
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
As Thomas put it:
The <pkg>_HELP_CMDS variable allows packages using the
kconfig-package infrastructure to display their specific
targets related to the handling of their configuration.
However, it was not consistently used and handled by the
different packages.
So, this commit switches all the kconfig-based package to use the
generic help helper.
As a consequence:
- all kconfig packages now advetise their kconfig-related actions,
where some were previously missing: at91bootstrap3, linux-backports,
swupdate, xvisor;
- busybox advertises it does not support defconfig files;
- the 'foo-savedfconfig' action is no longer advertised: it is to be
considered an internal implementation detail.
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
To support building in (a subset of) the linux-firmware files into the
kernel using the CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE option, we need to ensure that the
firmware files are installed before the Linux kernel is built, similar to
how it is done for intel-microcode.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
arm64 / riscv supports building a gzip compressed 'Image' format kernel,
which is sometimes useful. From arch/arm64/Makefile:
all: Image.gz
Image: vmlinux
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot) $(boot)/$@
Image.%: Image
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(boot) $(boot)/$@
(and similar logic for riscv)
Future architectures may or may not copy this logic, so for robustness add
an explicit Image.gz format rather than copying both Image and Image.gz when
the Image format is used.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
As we discussed on the mailing list, using $(<pkg>_NAME) when defining
CPE ID variables feels a bit odd and needlessly complicated. Just use
the package name directly.
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Drop 5.9 stable (EOL).
Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
[Peter: add Config.in.legacy handling for 5.9]
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The CPE type of the Linux kernel is special, it should be "o", unlike
all other packages that use "a". We therefore need to override
<pkg>_CPE_ID_PREFIX, so that the CPE ID of the linux package matches
with the CPE dictionary.
Reported-by: Matt Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
Cc: Matt Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Tested-by: Matt Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
This patch adds CPE ID information for a significant number of
packages.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
This patch bumps Linux CIP RT to version 4.19.152-cip37-rt16
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This patch bumps Linux CIP to version 4.19.152-cip37
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This reverts commit b737c6b351. This was not
supposed to be committed, as the patch did not update linux.hash.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This patch bumps Linux CIP to version 4.19.152-cip37
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Curently, host-kmod has no option to enable it, because only
the kernel depends on it, and this is unconditional (because
we can't know if modules will be enabled in the kernel config).
But we're soon to add options to enable various features of
kmod, so we'll need a place where to show those features.
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
Cc: Lucian Buga <lucianbuga@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Matt Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Add support for creating self-extractible kernels compressed with ZSTD.
Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
If the modules directory that corresponds to the version of the kernel
being built has been deleted, don't try to run depmod, which will
obviously fail.
This can happen for instance when the modules are stripped from the main
root filesystem, and placed into a separate filesystem image, so that
the root filesystem and the kernel can be updated separately.
Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
On Ubuntu 18.04, make-4.1 emits spurious, incorrect "entering/leaving"
messages, which end up in the LINUX_VERSION_PROBED variable:
printf 'probed linux version: "%s"\n' "$(LINUX_VERSION_PROBED)"
probed linux version: "make[1]: Entering directory '/home/buildroot'
4.19.78-linux4sam-6.2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/buildroot/output/build/linux-linux4sam_6.2'"
First, the messages are displayed even though we do explicitly pass
--no-print-directory -s.
Second, the entering and leaving messages are not about the same
directory!
This *only* occurs in the following conditions:
- the user has the correct 0022 umask,
- top-level parallel is used (with or without PPD),
- initial -C is specified as well.
$ umask 0022
$ make -j16 -C $(pwd)
[...]
depmod: ERROR: Bad version passed make[1]:
[...]
(yes, 'make[1]:' is the string depmod is trying, and fails, to parse as
a version string).
If any of the three conditions above is removed, the problem no longer
occurs. Here's a table of the MAKEFLAGS:
| 0002 | 0022 |
----+-------+------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| no-j | --no-print-directory -- | |
noC | +------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| -j16 | -j --jobserver-fds=3,4 --no-print-directory -- | -j --jobserver-fds=3,4 |
----+-------+------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| no-j | --no-print-directory -- | w |
-C | +------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| -j16 | -j --jobserver-fds=3,4 --no-print-directory -- | w -j --jobserver-fds=3,4 |
----+-------+------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
0002: umask == 0002
0022: umask == 0022
no-j: no -j flag
-j16: -j16 flag
noC: no -C flag
-C : -C /path/of/buildroot/
Only the bottom-right-most case fails...
This behaviour goes against what is documented:
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#g_t_002dw-Option
5.7.4 The ‘--print-directory’ Option
[...]
you do not need to specify this option because ‘make’ does it for
you: ‘-w’ is turned on automatically when you use the ‘-C’ option,
and in sub-makes. make will not automatically turn on ‘-w’ if you
also use ‘-s’, which says to be silent, or if you use
‘--no-print-directory’ to explicitly disable it.
So this exactly describes our situation; yet 'w' is added to MAKEFLAGS.
Getting rid of the 'w' flag makes the build succeed again, so that's
what we do here (bleark, icky)...
Furthermore, the documented way to override MAKEFLAGS is to do so as a
make parameter:
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Options_002fRecursion
5.7.3 Communicating Options to a Sub-make
[...]
If you do not want to pass the other flags down, you must change the
value of MAKEFLAGS, like this:
subsystem:
cd subdir && $(MAKE) MAKEFLAGS=
However, doing so does not fix the issue. So we resort to pass the
modified MAKEFLAGS via the environment (bleark, icky)...
Fixes: #13141
Reported-by: Laurent <laurent@neko-labs.eu>
Reported-by: Asaf Kahlon <asafka7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This patch bumps Linux CIP RT to version 4.19.132-cip30-rt12
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
This patch bumps Linux CIP to version 4.19.132-cip30
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Commit a4eef9a395 (linux: introduce BR2_KERNEL_DTB_KEEP_DIRNAME)
introduced a new config option, but its name was not matching the
naming-scheme of the other config options.
Rename it.
We don't need legacy handling, because that config option was added very
recently and was never part of a release.
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
In linux, newer architectures like ARM64 and RISC-V keep their device
tree sources organized by subdirectories. When these device trees are
installed by the kernel they will keep the directory names. But
buildroot strips the prefixes when installing them into /boot or the
images directory.
Sometimes the bootloader references the device tree by name (e.g.
u-boot has the environment variable 'fdtfile') which also includes
the prefix directory.
Make it possible to keep this prefix during installation, so we can
be compatible with other distributions and make it easier for the
user, because he doesn't have to change that environment variable.
Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
A few conflicts had to be resolved:
- Version number and hash for mesa3d-headers/mesa3d
- Patches added in qemu, and the qemu version number
- The gnuconfig README.buildroot
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
perf by itself is not a standalone package; instead, it is part of a
bigger package, linux-tools.
Even though perf is the only one to need kernel .config fixups, we still
do it in a generic way, as it blends nicely in the existing variables,
which all use a loop over all the tools.
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
The soon-to-be-released linux 5.7 has changed the way it detects the
ability of gcc to use plugins, when it dropped support for gcc 4.7 or
older [0].
To detect the ability to use gcc plugins, the kernel has to check
whether the host gcc is capable enough to build them.
When we call one of the configurator for the Linux kernel, we explicitly
pass a value of HOSTCC=$(HOSTCC_NOCCACHE), because there might be a
discrepancy between the ncurses headers and libraries as found by the
Linux kconfig build [1] [2].
But then, when we build the kernel, we pass another value to use [3]
HOSTCC="$(HOSTCC) $(HOST_CFLAGS) $(HOST_LDFLAGS)" which boils down to
roughly: gcc -I.../host/include -L.../host/lib -Wl,-rpath,.../host/lib
This is needed so that at build time, the kernel can build host tools
that link with our openssl et al.
So, the two HOSTCC we pass to the kernel may have different behaviours.
For example, on a machine where gmp is missing in the system, it is
available in $(O)/host/ when using an internal toolchain (and under a
few other conditions).
In that case, when configuring the kernel, it decides that the host
compiler can't build plugins, so the dependencies of CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS
are not met, and that option is not present in the linux' .config file
(neither as "=y" nor as "is not set"). But then, when we build the
kernel, the host compiler suddenly becomes capable of building the
plugins, and the internal syncconfig run by the kernel will notice that
the dependencies of CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS are now met, and that the user
shall decide on its value. And this blocks a build on an interactive
console (abbreviated):
* Restart config...
* GCC plugins
GCC plugins (GCC_PLUGINS) [Y/n/?] (NEW) _
But most problematic is the behaviour when run in a shell that is not
interactiove (e.g. a CI job or such) (abbreviated):
* Restart config...
* GCC plugins
GCC plugins (GCC_PLUGINS) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
Error in reading or end of file.
Generate some entropy during boot and runtime (GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Error in reading or end of file.
Randomize layout of sensitive kernel structures (GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Error in reading or end of file.
* Memory initialization
Initialize kernel stack variables at function entry
> 1. no automatic initialization (weakest) (INIT_STACK_NONE)
2. zero-init structs marked for userspace (weak) (GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_USER) (NEW)
3. zero-init structs passed by reference (strong) (GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF) (NEW)
4. zero-init anything passed by reference (very strong) (GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL) (NEW)
choice[1-4?]:
Error in reading or end of file.
Poison kernel stack before returning from syscalls (GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Error in reading or end of file.
Enable heap memory zeroing on allocation by default (INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON) [N/y/?] n
Enable heap memory zeroing on free by default (INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON) [N/y/?] n
The most obvious and simple solution would be to unconditionally disable
gcc plugins altogether, in the KCONFIG_FIXUP hook. But that can't work
either, because after applying the fixups, we call olddefconfig (or the
likes) with the incapable HOSTCC, so the disabled option would be removed
anyway, and we'd be back to square one.
So, in addition to the above, we also forcibly hack the same call just
before actually building the kernel.
Note that the two are needed: the one in the fixups is needed for those
that have a system that already allows building gcc plugins, and the
second is needed in the other case, where the system does not allow it
but would work with our additional headers and libs in $(O)/host/. The
two ensure there is a very similar experience in the two situations.
Forcibly disabling the use of gcc plugins is not a regression on our
side: it has never been possible to do so so far. We're now making sure
that can't work by accident.
Reported-by: Ganesh <ganesh45in@gmail.com>,
Reported-by: Heiko Thiery <heiko.thiery@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Michael Walle <michael.walle@kontron.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Tested-by: Heiko Thiery <heiko.thiery@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
In version 5.6 a minor change was made to this file, stating tht "[a]ll
contributions to the Linux Kernel are subject to this COPYING file",
and hence the hash changed.
We can update the hash, because the licensing information is only
accounted for the "latest" version, so the hash change will not impact
older kernel versions as the user would have to switch to a non-latest
kernel.
Signed-off-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Bumping the hashes for CIP and CIP RT.
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This patch bumps Linux CIP RT version to 4.19.115-cip24-rt9.
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
This patch bumps Linux CIP version to v4.19.118-cip25.
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Adam Duskett <aduskett@gmail.com>
Cc: Clayton Shotwell <clayton.shotwell@rockwellcollins.com>
Cc: Matt Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
Cc: Marcus Folkesson <marcus.folkesson@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
Reviewed-by: Adam Duskett <aduskett@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Adam Duskett <aduskett@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Adam Duskett <aduskett@gmail.com>
Cc: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Carlos Santos <unixmania@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Anders Darander <anders@chargestorm.se>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Cc: Carlos Santos <unixmania@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Currently, the linux kernel will apply some fixups on its .config file,
based on whether some packages are enabled or not. That list of
conditional fixups is getting bigger and bigger with each new package
that needs such fixups, culminating with the pending firewalld one [0].
Furthermore, these fixups are not accessible to packages in br2-external
trees.
Add a new per-package variable, that packages may set to the commands to
run to fixup the kernel .config file, which is added at the end of the
linux' own fixups.
This opens the possibility to write things like;
define FOO_LINUX_CONFIG_FIXUPS
$(call KCONFIG_ENABLE_OPT,BLA)
endef
Of course, it also opens the way to run arbitrary commands in there, but
any alternative that would be declarative only, such as a list of
options to enable or disable (as an example):
FOO_LINUX_CONFIG_FIXUPS = +BAR -FOO +BUZ="value"
.. is not very nice either, and such lists fall flat when a value would
have a space.
For packages that we have in-tree, we can ensure they won't play foul
with their _LINUX_CONFIG_FIXUPS. For packages in br2-external trees,
there's nothing we can do; users already have the opportunity to hack
into the linux configure process by providing LINUX_PRE_CONFIGURE_HOOKS
or LINUX_POST_CONFIGURE_HOOKS anyway...
.. which brings the question of why we don't use that to implement the
per-package fixups. We don't, because _PRE or _POST_CONFIGURE_HOOKS are
run after we run 'make oldconfig' to sanitise the mangled .config.
[0] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2020-March/278683.html
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Cc: Adam Duskett <aduskett@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Notice: 5.5.x is now EOL, so should be dropped at the next version bump.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Using AppArmor requires support in the kernel, so do for AppArmor what
we did for SElinux, and enabled the necessary options.
Note that a single LSM can be the default one, so as of today, SELinux
wins, by virtue of being the last to be enabled.
Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo@amarulasolutions.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr:
- don't force DEFAULT_SECURITY_APPARMOR, it does not exist in all
kernel versions
- move closer to SELinux
- split into its own patch, write a commit log
]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Tested-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo@amarulasolutions.com>
The help text of BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_IMAGE_NAME is somewhat incomplete,
in the sense that it assumes just a filename can be passed, while it
can be a relative path, such as 'compressed/vmlinux.bin.z'. So make it
clear that such paths are relative to arch/ARCH/boot/.
Also, drop the part about this being only useful for Xtensa as this is
not true: on MIPS it might be needed as well for some specific image
types.
Reported-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
Cc: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
The Linux kernel image is typically found in arch/ARCH/boot/, which is
why LINUX_IMAGE_PATH is defined as:
LINUX_IMAGE_PATH = $(LINUX_ARCH_PATH)/boot/$(LINUX_IMAGE_NAME)
However, on MIPS, some kernel image types are available from
arch/mips/boot/compressed, or even at the top-level directory. For
such cases, LINUX_IMAGE_NAME might be set (using
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_IMAGE_NAME) to values such as:
compressed/vmlinux.bin.z
or
../../../uzImage.bin
Except that the line:
$(INSTALL) -m 0644 -D $(LINUX_IMAGE_PATH) $(1)/$(LINUX_IMAGE_NAME)
will lead to such images be installed in:
$(TARGET_DIR)/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.z
$(BINARIES_DIR)/compressed/vmlinux.bin.z
and:
$(TARGET_DIR)/boot/../../../uzImage.bin
$(BINARIES_DIR)/../../../uzImage.bin
which of course is completely bogus.
So let's install them under their name, not their full relative path
to arch/ARCH/boot/.
Reported-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
Cc: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Jagan Teki <jagan@amarulasolutions.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr:
- bump to 5.5.13
- rebase on top of master
]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
When a package installs a kernel module, it is currently not possible to
have it loaded with modprobe or when the kernel requests an alias for
it, as the module is not listed in /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/modules.dep
and the associated files.
So, we need to run depmod after all packages are installed, to register
any such out-of-tree module.
This means we should be able to let go of calling depmod at the time the
kernel is installed, but if we pass an invalid command, the kernel
whines:
DEPMOD 5.4.27
./scripts/depmod.sh: 46: /dev/null: Permission denied
make[2]: *** [Makefile:1326: _modinst_post] Error 126
This is because the kernel does not directly call to depmod, but uses a
wrapper that is not happy if depmod is not depmod.
Since the call to depmod does not cost much, we just keep it.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Santos <unixmania@gmail.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr:
- keep calling depmod when installing kernel
- expand commit log
]
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
