On 9.10.2013 09:18, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Yann E. MORIN [off-list ref] wrote:

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On 2013-09-30 10:49 +0200, Robert Richter spake thusly:

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On 18.07.13 11:22:24, Michal Marek wrote:

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So Michal (or ARM people - whoever wants to take the patch), just take
my ack. No objections.

I can add it to the kbuild tree if needed. Otherwise you can add
Acked-by: Michal Marek <redacted>.

This didn't make it upstream yet, can somebody at it to a tree?

Since it's been acked-by Linus, I'll queue it in my tree, for Michal to
pull from. Expect a pull-request soon.

Sorry for chiming in that late, but I didn't think of this when reading the
original submission.

Just doing "make oldconfig; make install" used to work.

On ARM and maybe other architectures.

Removing the dependency of "make vmlinux" on vmlinux breaks this, doesn't it?

Yes.

I had the habit of doing the above many years ago, when I was mostly doing
native builds, and before I had my own custom linux-install-kernel
script that e.g.
knows how to copy kernels and modules around to NFS servers.

Not that I'm strongly attached to it, but there may be other users...

We can't eat the cake and have it :). What can be done is to make
arch/arm/boot/install.sh print a friendlier error message, like the x86
version does:

if [ ! -f "$1" ]; then
	echo ""                                                   1>&2
	echo " *** Missing file: $1"                              1>&2
	echo ' *** You need to run "make" before "make install".' 1>&2
	echo ""                                                   1>&2
	exit 1
fi

Michal