fix modules_install via NFS
Rafael reported:
I get the following error from 'make modules_install' on my test boxes:
HOSTCC firmware/ihex2fw
/home/rafael/src/linux-2.6/firmware/ihex2fw.c:268: fatal error: opening dependency file firmware/.ihex2fw.d: Read-only file system
compilation terminated.
make[3]: *** [firmware/ihex2fw] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_modinst_post] Error 2
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
where the configuration is that the kernel is compiled on a build box
with 'make O=<destdir> -j5' and then <destdir> is mounted over NFS read-only by
each test box (full path to this directory is the same on the build box and on
the test boxes). Then, I cd into <destdir>, run 'make modules_install' and get
the error above.
The issue turns out to be that we when we install firmware pick
up the list of firmware blobs from firmware/Makefile.
And this triggers the Makefile rules to update ihex2fw.
There were two solutions for this issue:
1) Move the list of firmware blobs to a separate file
2) Avoid ihex2fw rebuild by moving it to scripts
As I seriously beleive that the list of firmware blobs should be
done in a fundamental different way solution 2) was selected.
Reported-and-tested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
diff --git a/firmware/Makefile b/firmware/Makefile
index d872b79..55d3082 100644
--- a/firmware/Makefile
+++ b/firmware/Makefile
@@ -99,10 +99,10 @@
cmd_ihex = $(OBJCOPY) -Iihex -Obinary $< $@
quiet_cmd_ihex2fw = IHEX2FW $@
- cmd_ihex2fw = $(objtree)/$(obj)/ihex2fw $< $@
+ cmd_ihex2fw = $(objtree)/scripts/ihex2fw $< $@
quiet_cmd_h16tofw = H16TOFW $@
- cmd_h16tofw = $(objtree)/$(obj)/ihex2fw -w $< $@
+ cmd_h16tofw = $(objtree)/scripts/ihex2fw -w $< $@
quiet_cmd_fwbin = MK_FW $@
cmd_fwbin = FWNAME="$(patsubst firmware/%.gen.S,%,$@)"; \
@@ -165,11 +165,11 @@
# is actually meaningful, because the firmware has to be loaded in a certain
# order rather than as a single binary blob. Thus, we convert them into our
# more compact binary representation of ihex records (<linux/ihex.h>)
-$(obj)/%.fw: $(obj)/%.HEX $(obj)/ihex2fw | $(objtree)/$(obj)/$$(dir %)
+$(obj)/%.fw: $(obj)/%.HEX | $(objtree)/$(obj)/$$(dir %)
$(call cmd,ihex2fw)
# .H16 is our own modified form of Intel HEX, with 16-bit length for records.
-$(obj)/%.fw: $(obj)/%.H16 $(obj)/ihex2fw | $(objtree)/$(obj)/$$(dir %)
+$(obj)/%.fw: $(obj)/%.H16 | $(objtree)/$(obj)/$$(dir %)
$(call cmd,h16tofw)
$(firmware-dirs):
@@ -186,5 +186,3 @@
# Without this, built-in.o won't be created when it's empty, and the
# final vmlinux link will fail.
obj-n := dummy
-
-hostprogs-y := ihex2fw