On architectures which have symbol prefixes, depmod emits lots of
warnings like this:

WARNING: $module.ko needs unknown symbol $symbol

This is because depmod isn't being passed the -P <symbol_prefix>
arguments to specify the symbol prefix to ignore. This option is
included since the 3.13 release of module-init-tools.

Update scripts/depmod.sh to take extra arguments for the symbol prefix
(required but may be empty), and update the main Makefile to always pass
"$(CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX)" to scripts/depmod.sh.

If the provided symbol prefix is non-empty, scripts/depmod.sh checks if
depmod --version reports module-init-tools with a version number < 3.13
otherwise it appends -P $SYMBOL_PREFIX to the depmod command line.
Signed-off-by: NJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org
Signed-off-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

scripts/depmod.sh checks for the output of '-V' expecting that it has
module-init-tools in it. It's a hack to prevent users from using
modutils instead of module-init-tools, that only works with 2.4.x
kernels. This however prints an annoying warning for kmod tool, that is
currently replacing module-init-tools.

Rather than putting another check for kmod's version, just remove it
since users of 2.4.x kernel are unlikely to upgrade to 3.x, and if they
do, let depmod fail in that case because they should know what they are
doing.
Signed-off-by: NLucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Acked-by: NWANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Acked-By: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

Let depmod.sh create a temporary directory in /tmp instead of writing to
the build directory as root. The mktemp utility should be available on
any recent system (and there is already scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
relying on it).
Reported-by: NChristian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Signed-off-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

depmod from module-init-tools < 3.13 and the busybox depmod check if the
kernel release starts with <num>.<num>.<num>. To support these versions,
we create a symlink with two numbers prepended.
Signed-off-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

Do not bloat the Makefile with multiline shell statements. No
user-visible change intended.
Signed-off-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>