From manningc2@actrix.gen.nz Wed May 26 03:18:30 2010 Received: from smtp.firstline.co.nz ([203.167.210.162] helo=scorch.co.nz) by stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OH6CP-00035I-E9 for balloon@balloonboard.org; Wed, 26 May 2010 03:18:29 +0100 Received: (qmail 6251 invoked by uid 453); 26 May 2010 02:18:17 -0000 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on scorch.co.nz Received: from Unknown (HELO linux-dual-head.local) (10.14.210.25) by scorch.co.nz (qpsmtpd/0.40) with ESMTP; Wed, 26 May 2010 14:18:17 +1200 From: Charles Manning To: balloon@balloonboard.org Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 14:18:16 +1200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <201005241726.48789.manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> In-Reply-To: <201005241726.48789.manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201005261418.16447.manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 203.167.210.162 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: manningc2@actrix.gen.nz X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=4.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,SPF_NEUTRAL autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:14:11 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk) Subject: Re: [Balloon] Fixing the depmod problem X-BeenThere: balloon@balloonboard.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: Balloon List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 02:18:32 -0000 On Monday 24 May 2010 17:26:48 Charles Manning wrote: > Until we have a modules.dep with absolute paths, the modprobe won't work. > Until that happens I guess I really don't have an easy way to transfer test > scripts etc onto the board. > > I thought it would be easy to use sed to massage the modules.dep but for > some reason the places I added them in the Makefile to didn't get called. > Clearly I don't understand the make dependencies properly. > > Any hints on where to inject such sedness welcome. I updated to r1115 but Wookey's fix didn't work for me. I have DEPMODVER of 3.11.1 which the sed-based logic does not handle. I changed that to cut and it works for me. With this I get loading modules :-) and setup is doing its thing as I write this... Thanks to all, particularly Wookey... Here's a patch against r1115 that works for me: Index: initrd/Makefile =================================================================== --- initrd/Makefile (revision 1115) +++ initrd/Makefile (working copy) @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ #fixup relative paths if depmod is newer than 3.4 #should check buildroot version too... case $(DEPMODVER) in 3.*) \ - if expr `echo $(DEPMODVER) | sed -e"s/3.//;s/[-~].*$$//"` \> 4 ;then\ + if expr `echo $(DEPMODVER) | cut -d. -f2 ` \> 4 ;then\ sed -i -e"s_kernel_/lib/modules/$(KERNVER)-pxa270/kernel_g" $(TARGETSKEL)/lib/modules/$(KERNVER)-pxa270/modules.dep ;\ fi ;\ ;; \