Re: Sam Nelson : linux-ti-staging: Work around to avoid race condition with external module

[Denys Dmytriyenko <denys@ti.com>]

Thanks! Would you be submitting the corresponding patch? :)


On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 01:54:43PM -0500, Nelson, Sam wrote:
> Yes, this workaround needs to be copied to 4.1 recipe as well.  (As the 
> problem itself will still exist in fido and the issue is not kernel 
> specific)
> With regards,
> Sam
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: meta-ti-bounces@yoctoproject.org [mailto:meta-ti-
> > bounces@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Dmytriyenko, Denys
> > Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 8:00 PM
> > To: meta-ti@yoctoproject.org
> > Subject: Re: [meta-ti] Sam Nelson : linux-ti-staging: Work around to avoid race
> > condition with external module
> > 
> > Sam,
> > 
> > Is this still a problem on 4.1 kernel? Do we need to copy this work around to
> > 4.1 recipe in Fido branch?
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 01:07:23AM +0000, Arago Project git wrote:
> > > Module: meta-ti
> > > Branch: fido
> > > Commit: 4f542c3fe47a8c6be195b3c97fd83efbf930bb70
> > > URL:    http://arago-project.org/git/meta-
> > ti.git?a=commit;h=4f542c3fe47a8c6be195b3c97fd83efbf930bb70
> > >
> > > Author: Sam Nelson <sam.nelson@ti.com>
> > > Date:   Mon Dec 14 17:47:48 2015 +0000
> > >
> > > linux-ti-staging: Work around to avoid race condition with external module
> > >
> > > - Currently there is an issue with compiling external kernel module
> > > which depends on symbols from another kernel module which is part of the
> > > list of modules configured to be built as modules in the default config.
> > > - This work around allows to avoid the issue by copying the module
> > > symbols to the kernel directory after making the kernel modules build.
> > > - This issue is already fixed in oe-core: master branch as of date
> > > - This is just work around before updating to latest oe-core
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Sam Nelson <sam.nelson@ti.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Denys Dmytriyenko <denys@ti.com>
> > >
> > > ---
> > >
> > >  recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti-staging_3.14.bb |    4 ++++
> > >  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti-staging_3.14.bb b/recipes-
> > kernel/linux/linux-ti-staging_3.14.bb
> > > index 54530e4..88950ae 100644
> > > --- a/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti-staging_3.14.bb
> > > +++ b/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti-staging_3.14.bb
> > > @@ -65,3 +65,7 @@ KERNEL_GIT_PROTOCOL = "git"
> > >  SRC_URI +=
> > "${KERNEL_GIT_URI};protocol=${KERNEL_GIT_PROTOCOL};branch=${BRANCH}
> > \
> > >              file://defconfig \
> > >             "
> > > +
> > > +do_compile_kernelmodules_append() {
> > > +	cp Module.symvers ${STAGING_KERNEL_BUILDDIR}/
> > > +}
> > >
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