Re: sr_mod problem with 2.1.86

Michael Elizabeth Chastain (mec@shout.net)
Thu, 12 Feb 1998 13:30:23 -0600


Hi Trevor,

> /lib/modules/current> ls -l
> total 23
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 10 23:07 block
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13936 Feb 11 10:07 cdrom
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 11 10:18 fs
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 10 23:07 ipv4
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 11 10:19 misc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1886 Feb 11 12:44 modules.dep
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 10 23:07 net
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 10 23:07 scsi

Aha.

I don't know how this can happen. Perhaps it's related to that time you
ran out of inodes recently? A 'mkdir -p' failed, but the next ordinary
copy command succeeded. After that the 'mkdir -p' would fail on every
'make modules_install' with a message like `cdrom' exists but is not
a directory.

But the top-level Makefile doesn't check the return status of these
commands. Yet another Makefile bug.

Regards,

Michael Chastain
<mailto:mec@shout.net>
"love without fear"

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