kbuild: verify that $DEPMOD is installed

Verify that 'depmod' ($DEPMOD) is installed.
This is a partial revert of commit 620c231c7a
("kbuild: do not check for ancient modutils tools").

Also update Documentation/process/changes.rst to refer to
kmod instead of module-init-tools.

Fixes kernel bugzilla #198965:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198965

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Chih-Wei Huang <cwhuang@linux.org.tw>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # any kernel since 2012
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
This commit is contained in:
Randy Dunlap
2018-07-01 19:46:06 -07:00
committed by Masahiro Yamada
parent c417fbce98
commit 934193a654
2 changed files with 14 additions and 13 deletions

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@@ -10,10 +10,16 @@ fi
DEPMOD=$1
KERNELRELEASE=$2
if ! test -r System.map -a -x "$DEPMOD"; then
if ! test -r System.map ; then
exit 0
fi
if [ -z $(command -v $DEPMOD) ]; then
echo "'make modules_install' requires $DEPMOD. Please install it." >&2
echo "This is probably in the kmod package." >&2
exit 1
fi
# older versions of depmod require the version string to start with three
# numbers, so we cheat with a symlink here
depmod_hack_needed=true