Randy Dunlap
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commit914b087ff9upstream. When $DEPMOD is not found, only print a warning instead of exiting with an error message and error status: Warning: 'make modules_install' requires /sbin/depmod. Please install it. This is probably in the kmod package. Change the Error to a Warning because "not all build hosts for cross compiling Linux are Linux systems and are able to provide a working port of depmod, especially at the file patch /sbin/depmod." I.e., "make modules_install" may be used to copy/install the loadable modules files to a target directory on a build system and then transferred to an embedded device where /sbin/depmod is run instead of it being run on the build system. Fixes:934193a654("kbuild: verify that $DEPMOD is installed") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reported-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.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> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Maxim Zhukov <mussitantesmortem@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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