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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] modules.devname not found...
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:25:41
Message-Id: 53D7D8F1.7090503@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] modules.devname not found... by Neil Bothwick
1 On 29/07/14 20:22, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:25:15 +0200, Jarry wrote:
3 >
4 >> ________
5 >> * Creating list of required static device nodes for the current
6 >> kernel... Warning: /lib/modules/3.12.21-gentoo-r1/modules.devname not
7 >> found - ignor ________
8 >>
9 >> What does it mean and how can I get rid of it?
10 > By creating the missing file :)
11 >
12 >> Strange is, I do not have this message on any other system
13 >> (and I installed them the same way). All are updated, using
14 >> the same kernel. None of them is using modules, none of them
15 >> has /lib/modules/3.12.21-gentoo-r1/modules.devname and none
16 >> of them complains. Except this new one...
17 > /lib/modules/${uname -r)/modules.devname is created by depmod -a.
18 >
19 >
20
21 Right, and if he is using monolitic kernel with CONFIG_MODULES=n in
22 kernel /usr/src/linux/.config,
23 with no modules at all, then he should remove 'kmod-static-nodes' init
24 script from the runlevels
25 to silence the warning
26 That is, if that's really true, otherwise use `depmod -a`
27
28 - Samuli

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Re: [gentoo-user] modules.devname not found... Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com>