Re: [PATCH] module-init-tools: fix multiple runtime providers

[Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>]

On 12/01/2010 07:11 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> 2010/12/1 Martin Jansa<martin.jansa@gmail.com>:
>> * NOTE: multiple providers are available for runtime module-init-tools-depmod (module-init-tools, module-init-tools-cross)
>>   NOTE: consider defining a PREFERRED_PROVIDER entry to match module-init-tools-depmod
>> ---
>>   recipes/module-init-tools/module-init-tools.inc |   10 +++++-----
>>   1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/recipes/module-init-tools/module-init-tools.inc b/recipes/module-init-tools/module-init-tools.inc
>> index 3cfaf11..247b39a 100644
>> --- a/recipes/module-init-tools/module-init-tools.inc
>> +++ b/recipes/module-init-tools/module-init-tools.inc
>> @@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ removing kernel modules for Linux (versions 2.5.48 and above). It serves \
>>   the same function that the modutils package serves for Linux 2.4."
>>   LICENSE = "GPLv2"
>>   SECTION = "base"
>> -PR = "r5"
>> +PR = "r6"
>>
>> -PACKAGES =+ "module-init-tools-insmod-static module-init-tools-depmod"
>> -RDEPENDS_${PN} += "module-init-tools-depmod"
>> +PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-insmod-static ${PN}-depmod"
>> +RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${PN}-depmod"
>>
>> -FILES_module-init-tools-depmod = "${sbindir}/depmod.26"
>> -FILES_module-init-tools-insmod-static = "${sbindir}/insmod.static"
>> +FILES_${PN}-depmod = "${sbindir}/depmod.26"
>> +FILES_${PN}-insmod-static = "${sbindir}/insmod.static"
>>
>>   SRC_URI = "${KERNELORG_MIRROR}/pub/linux/utils/kernel/module-init-tools/module-init-tools-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
>>            file://ignore_arch_directory;apply=yes \
>> --
>
> Thanks for the patch!
> Acked-by: Frans Meulenbroeks<fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com>
>
> still not really sure why we have module-init-tools-cross though.
> A quick search did not give me a user (but maybe the search was too quick)
> And still unsure why a cross recipe should produce a  package.
> And maybe it should be module-init-tools-native ?

It's used for running depmod on images during creation, iirc.

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation