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authorRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>2018-07-02 04:46:06 +0200
committerMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>2018-07-17 18:18:05 +0200
commit934193a654c1f4d0643ddbf4b2529b508cae926e (patch)
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parentkbuild: move bin2c back to scripts/ from scripts/basic/ (diff)
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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>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/process/changes.rst19
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index ddc029734b25..005d8842a503 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ binutils 2.20 ld -v
flex 2.5.35 flex --version
bison 2.0 bison --version
util-linux 2.10o fdformat --version
-module-init-tools 0.9.10 depmod -V
+kmod 13 depmod -V
e2fsprogs 1.41.4 e2fsck -V
jfsutils 1.1.3 fsck.jfs -V
reiserfsprogs 3.6.3 reiserfsck -V
@@ -156,12 +156,6 @@ is not build with ``CONFIG_KALLSYMS`` and you have no way to rebuild and
reproduce the Oops with that option, then you can still decode that Oops
with ksymoops.
-Module-Init-Tools
------------------
-
-A new module loader is now in the kernel that requires ``module-init-tools``
-to use. It is backward compatible with the 2.4.x series kernels.
-
Mkinitrd
--------
@@ -371,16 +365,17 @@ Util-linux
- <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>
+Kmod
+----
+
+- <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kmod/>
+- <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git>
+
Ksymoops
--------
- <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/ksymoops/v2.4/>
-Module-Init-Tools
------------------
-
-- <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/module-init-tools/>
-
Mkinitrd
--------