[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 0/3] Fix modules loading with external/git kernels

[Florian Fainelli]

Hi,

As I was alluding to in this email:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/2017-February/005980.html

there used to be a problem in that we could not load kernel modules. This was
largely fixed by two different commits:

1f12a3daaaa8f3525741bef2bc2be7c5c6c77b50 ("kernel: speed up build system by
getting rid of redundant work")
0df2c6563a3537ed21b28a9fb6874bf2718afd05 ("kernel: prevent addition of scm
marker to localversion")

However this solves the problems by just completely overriding KERNELRELEASE and
we lose any kind of valuable information in there.

When doing external kernel builds, which are usually reflective of doing kernel
work, it is very important to have a correct kernel version string (as reported
by uname) just like keeping modules to load is important.

This patch series addresses that by properly determining what the modules
installation directory should be.

Florian Fainelli (3):
  Revert "kernel: prevent addition of scm marker to localversion"
  include: Do not alter KERNELRELEASE for external/git kernels
  include: Determine MODULES_DIR correctly for external/git kernels

 include/kernel-defaults.mk | 11 ++++++-----
 include/kernel.mk          |  8 +++++---
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

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