Am 23.08.2018 um 20:13 schrieb Randy Dunlap [off-list ref]:

From: Randy Dunlap <redacted>

When $DEPMOD is not found, only print a warning instead of exiting
with an error message and error status.

Warning: 'make modules_install' requires /sbin/depmod. Please install it.
This is probably in the kmod package.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <redacted>
Fixes: 934193a654c1 ("kbuild: verify that $DEPMOD is installed")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <redacted>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <redacted>
Cc: Michal Marek <redacted>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Chih-Wei Huang <redacted>
Cc: H. Nikolaus Schaller <redacted>
---
v2: add missing "exit 0" and update the commit message (no Error).
v3: add Fixes: and Cc: stable

scripts/depmod.sh |    4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- lnx-418.orig/scripts/depmod.sh
+++ lnx-418/scripts/depmod.sh

@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ if ! test -r System.map ; then

fi

if [ -z $(command -v $DEPMOD) ]; then
-	echo "'make modules_install' requires $DEPMOD. Please install it." >&2
+	echo "Warning: 'make modules_install' requires $DEPMOD. Please install it." >&2
	echo "This is probably in the kmod package." >&2
-	exit 1
+	exit 0
fi

# older versions of depmod require the version string to start with three