Re: depmod error reading ELF header

[Alex Romosan <alex@juliet.fnal.gov>]

i just tried to make the modules by hand and then install them with
'make modules_install' (instead of using make-kpkg) and none of the
*_MODULES files were copied to /lib/modules/2.x.x. make-kpkg
explicitly copies these files to that directory (look in
/usr/lib/kernel-package/rules). i suspect the new depmod tests to see
if all the files in the modules subdirectories are elf objects and, if
they are not, crashes. it could be a bug in depmod, it should skip
non-elf objects, but then the *_MODULES files are not supposed to be
there in the first place. it's hard to say whose bug this really is,
but i think i would go with make-kpgp (don't copy extra files where
they are not supposed to be in the first place just to be cute). so,
indeed, removing all the *_MODULES (including the one in misc) gets
depmod working again.

--alex--

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