[OE-core] [PATCH 14/16] udev: run depmod if modules.dep doesn't exist

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 19:55 +0000, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/init   |    5 +++++
>  meta/recipes-core/udev/udev_164.bb |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/init b/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/init
> index 322e7e7..8d89d51 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/init
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/init
> @@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ if [ "$DEVCACHE" != "" ]; then
>  	fi
>  fi
>  
> +if [ -x /sbin/depmod ] && [ ! -e "/lib/modules/$(uname -r)"/modules.dep ]; then
> +	mkdir -p /lib/modules/$(uname -r)
> +	depmod -ae
> +fi
> +
>  # make_extra_nodes
>  kill_udevd > "/dev/null" 2>&1

Why does udev need to do this instead of the kernel module postinstalls?
This strikes me as the wrong thing to be doing here...

Cheers,

Richard