fix modules_install via NFS

Rafael reported:

I get the following error from 'make modules_install' on my test boxes:

  HOSTCC  firmware/ihex2fw
/home/rafael/src/linux-2.6/firmware/ihex2fw.c:268: fatal error: opening dependency file firmware/.ihex2fw.d: Read-only file system
compilation terminated.
make[3]: *** [firmware/ihex2fw] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_modinst_post] Error 2
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

where the configuration is that the kernel is compiled on a build box
with 'make O=<destdir> -j5' and then <destdir> is mounted over NFS read-only by
each test box (full path to this directory is the same on the build box and on
the test boxes).  Then, I cd into <destdir>, run 'make modules_install' and get
the error above.

The issue turns out to be that we when we install firmware pick
up the list of firmware blobs from firmware/Makefile.
And this triggers the Makefile rules to update ihex2fw.

There were two solutions for this issue:
1) Move the list of firmware blobs to a separate file
2) Avoid ihex2fw rebuild by moving it to scripts

As I seriously beleive that the list of firmware blobs should be
done in a fundamental different way solution 2) was selected.

Reported-and-tested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile b/scripts/Makefile
index aafdf064feef..035182e16afb 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/Makefile
@@ -2,11 +2,12 @@
 # scripts contains sources for various helper programs used throughout
 # the kernel for the build process.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# ihex2fw:       Parser/loader for IHEX formatted data
 # kallsyms:      Find all symbols in vmlinux
 # pnmttologo:    Convert pnm files to logo files
-# conmakehash:   Create chartable
 # conmakehash:   Create arrays for initializing the kernel console tables
 
+hostprogs-y                      := ihex2fw
 hostprogs-$(CONFIG_KALLSYMS)     += kallsyms
 hostprogs-$(CONFIG_LOGO)         += pnmtologo
 hostprogs-$(CONFIG_VT)           += conmakehash