The "unset MODULE_DIR" trick was enough to get Linux 3.x kernels compiling, but it was definitely the Wrong Thing
We NEED MODULE_DIR set so that depmod can store the right dependencies during the build. The REAL problem with the
3.x kernels was two-fold: Our module-init-tools was so old that the kernel build needed to introduce a hack when
calling depmod (involving creating a symlink prepending 99.98 to the version number), and the depmod wrapper was
moved out of the Makefile into scripts/depmod.sh, so our substituteInPlace to get rid of '-b $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)' in
the Makefile was a noop and INSTALL_MOD_PATH was still being passed to depmod. This is now fixed and modprobe can
successfully find dependencies using the modules.dep created during install
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I wanted to wait for kernel.org to get back up, but there doesn't seem to be any information about when that will be. If you don't trust that this is Torvalds' github, see https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/4/92 for how to verify
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With the new kernel versioning scheme, the first release in a series only has a version number and
a major revision number (e.g. linux 3.0, linux 3.1-rc1, etc.). Unfortunately, the module
directory for these kernels still has a minor revision number (e.g. lib/modules/3.0.0, lib/modules/3.0.1-rc1, etc.).
This causes problems for packages such as broadcom_sta that need to know the module directory, so
this attribute will allow setting the module directory version number separate from the
kernel version number when necessary.
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Renamed cifs-timeout-2.6.32 patch to cifs-timeout-2.6.29 as this is the
older kernel version this patch applies to.
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Currently suffixed with 2.6.32.
This pre-patch prepares the landing of several versions of this patch to
support other Linux kernel versions.
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Moved the hardcoded postBuild hook from the builder to generic.nix:
Some old kernel (such as 2.6.15) did not yet support the unifdef target.
As a result, compiling them with the current Linux builder leads to a
failure.
Fixed by moving this hook as argument of the top-level function of
generic.nix. This allows some kernel nix codes to overrides its default
value.
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