Running `make modules_install` ordinarily will overwrite existing modules. This is the desired behavior, and is how pretty much every other `make install` target works.
However, if CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS is enabled, modules are passed through gzip and xz which then do the file writing. Both gzip and xz will error out if the file already exists, unless -f is passed. This patch adds -f so that the behavior is uniform. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <[email protected]> --- Makefile | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 6c6f146..5d2ec1c 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -849,10 +849,10 @@ export mod_strip_cmd mod_compress_cmd = true ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP - mod_compress_cmd = gzip -n + mod_compress_cmd = gzip -n -f endif # CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ - mod_compress_cmd = xz + mod_compress_cmd = xz -f endif # CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ endif # CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS export mod_compress_cmd -- 2.4.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
