On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Laura Abbott [off-list ref] wrote:

Currently, if a value that doesn't match a kernel version
("%u.%u") is passed in, depmod silently falls back to
using uname. Make it clear to the user that this is happening
by giving a message to the user.
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Actually I think we should not fallback. If the user passed a wrong
number, fallbacking to the currently running kernel is plain wrong.
This was done mostly due to compatibility with module-init-tools but I
prefer breaking it rather than silently (or verbose as per your patch)
doing the wrong thing.

thanks

Lucas De Marchi