Re: [Devil-linux-develop] hostap install abort (mproper, new lfssystem) [PATCH]

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Roland Pabel wrote:
> On Saturday 26 June 2004 15:47, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> 
>>Roland Pabel wrote:
>>
>>>On Saturday 26 June 2004 12:31, Roland Pabel wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Saturday 26 June 2004 10:13, Roland Pabel wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Friday 25 June 2004 15:19, Bruce Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>[...]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Ok, I've just hit this error again and I recall what I did last time:
>>>>>The problem is an old depmod :
>>>>>root:/# /sbin/depmod -V
>>>>>depmod version 2.4.22
>>>>>depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented
>>>
>>>looks like hostap-driver is one (the only?) package that calls depmod at
>>>some place. the old depmod doesn't work when used on a 2.6 kernel host
>>>system, so it generates the QM_MODULES error. My patch removes all depmod
>>>calls from hostap-drivers Makefile. Seems to work, my router is just
>>>booting that image Roland
>>
>>There should be a couple more Makefiles which call depmod, but which
>>probably ignore the error.
>>
>>More critical, we call depmod in the build-iso script, which is rather
>>important. We probably have to check if the host os is running under 2.6
>>and then use either the modutils or module-init-tools depmod.
>>But are those dependency files then running under 2.4?
> 
> /lib/modules/2.4.26/modules.dep looks ok and seems to work, but I don't know 
> how it's created... neither the lfssystem depmod nor the compiled depmod 
> binary from modutils package don't work on my host linux, of course it works 
> after you booted the image... and the modules.dep file on the cd is just 80KB 
> big, a 'depmod -an' gives a 300KB size file...

That's not good...
Can you create a modules.dep with the module-init-tools depmod and check 
if it works ?
If yes, then we have to add some checks about the running kernel.

Heiko