Created attachment 304672 [details] Fix to main Makefile to prevent disabled CONFIG_MODULES from being treated as an error I'm on AMD64 with Debian testing (trixie), where I build my own kernels (with CONFIG_MODULES unset) using "make bindeb-pkg". The build proceeds through 99% of the process, but fails here: Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready (#2) make -f ./Makefile ARCH=x86 KERNELRELEASE=6.4.4-i5 intdeb-pkg sh ./scripts/package/builddeb *** *** The present kernel configuration has modules disabled. *** To use the module feature, please run "make menuconfig" etc. *** to enable CONFIG_MODULES. *** make[5]: *** [Makefile:1969: modules_install] Error 1 make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.package:150: intdeb-pkg] Error 2 make[3]: *** [Makefile:1657: intdeb-pkg] Error 2 make[2]: *** [debian/rules:16: binary-arch] Error 2 dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2 make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.package:139: bindeb-pkg] Error 2 make: *** [Makefile:1657: bindeb-pkg] Error 2 6.3.13 contained the same error, but I "fixed" that by moving to 6.4.3. But alas, 6.4.4 now has the same issue. I worked around the issue by changing "exit 1" to "exit 0" in the main Makefile (at "modules module_install", per the attached patch), but I don't know if this is a true fix or something that simply happens to work for my particular configuration.
The following two commits are likely relevant: commit a8c2d8d32421877cca439245f77bfbbf7cef21c6 Author: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> kbuild: deb-pkg: remove the CONFIG_MODULES check in buildeb [ Upstream commit 1240dabe8d58b4eff09e7edf1560da0360f997aa ] commit 6061ac50f1e0436fd8329dc9ce6762862924a014 Author: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> kbuild: builddeb: always make modules_install, to install modules.builtin* [ Upstream commit 4243afdb932677a03770753be8c54b3190a512e8 ]
(In reply to Brian Lindholm from comment #1) > The following two commits are likely relevant: > > commit a8c2d8d32421877cca439245f77bfbbf7cef21c6 > Author: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> > kbuild: deb-pkg: remove the CONFIG_MODULES check in buildeb > [ Upstream commit 1240dabe8d58b4eff09e7edf1560da0360f997aa ] > > commit 6061ac50f1e0436fd8329dc9ce6762862924a014 > Author: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> > kbuild: builddeb: always make modules_install, to install modules.builtin* > [ Upstream commit 4243afdb932677a03770753be8c54b3190a512e8 ] Does bindeb-pkg works with both commits reverted?
(In reply to Bagas Sanjaya from comment #2) > Does bindeb-pkg works with both commits reverted? Yes. Just tried it. It builds a full set of Debian packages without issue.
According to LKML message https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/7/20/1552, upstream commit 8ae071fc216a25f4f797f33c56857f4dd6b4408e fixes the issue. When the commit is applied to 6.4.4, "make bindeb-pkg" works correctly. This commit has been scheduled for 6.4.5. I will close out the case when 6.4.5 is released.
6.4.5 is released and builds Debian modules with CONFIG_MODULES=n properly. Issue has been resolved.