Re: [PATCH] kernel.bbclass: provide virtual/kernel-${PV}

[Andreas Oberritter <obi@opendreambox.org>]

On 02/11/2011 02:18 PM, Koen Kooi wrote:
> On 11-02-11 14:02, Andreas Oberritter wrote:
>> * Allow precompiled modules to depend on a specific kernel version.
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Andreas Oberritter <obi@opendreambox.org>
>> ---
>>  classes/kernel.bbclass |    2 +-
>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
>> diff --git a/classes/kernel.bbclass b/classes/kernel.bbclass
>> index 0d1b4ad..55e3ca0 100644
>> --- a/classes/kernel.bbclass
>> +++ b/classes/kernel.bbclass
>> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>>  inherit linux-kernel-base module_strip
> 
>> -PROVIDES += "virtual/kernel"
>> +PROVIDES += "virtual/kernel virtual/kernel-${PV}"
>>  DEPENDS += "virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}gcc virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}depmod-${@get_kernelmajorversion('${PV}')} virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}gcc${KERNEL_CCSUFFIX} update-modules bluez-dtl1-workaround"
> 
>>  # we include gcc above, we dont need virtual/libc
> 
> How is PV know before the kernel is built? The line below has a
> workaround for that, so I guess it also needs one in PROVIDES, no?

KERNEL_VERSION is what's unknown until after the build. PV is the
version set by the recipe. The line below uses PV to derive 2.4 or 2.6
from that.

Regards,
Andreas