Re: [PATCH] modules_install must not remove existing modules

From: Randy.Dunlap
Date: Thu Apr 06 2006 - 16:32:52 EST


On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 08:43:10 +0200 Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:33:50PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > When installing external modules with `make modules_install', the
> > first thing that happens is a rm -rf of the target directory. This
> > works only once, and breaks when installing more than one (set of)
> > external module(s). Bug introduced in:
> > http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6/?cs=bbb3915836f5
> >
> > Sam, is this fix okay with you?
> Applied.
> We should document this somewhere...

Sam, did you apply the original patch from Andreas or some updated one?

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