Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Do not write to builddir in modules_install

[Michal Marek]

On 13.7.2011 03:05, AmÃrico Wang wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Michal Marek<mmarek@xxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > Let depmod.sh create a temporary directory in /tmp instead of writing to
> > the build directory as root. The mktemp utility should be available on
> > any recent system (and there is already scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
> > relying on it).
>
> Hmm, why not use $objtree/.tmp_depmod?

That's how it was done before and it's broken. make modules_install is 
usually ran as root and there is no guarantee that root has write access 
to the build directory (it can be on nfs).

Michal
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