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From: Hollis Blanchard <hollis_blanchard@mentor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] include usbinit package with usbgadget feature
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On 03/01/2012 02:45 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
> On 03/01/2012 02:26 PM, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>> The g_ether kernel module, in the kernel-module-g-ether package, allows
>> targets to use a USB connection as a network interface. However, that's
>> not useful until the module is loaded.
>>
>> The usbinit package provides the /etc/init.d/usb-gether script to load
>> the g_ether module at boot, so it should be included along with
>> kernel-module-g-ether.
> So if the g-ether kernel module is built-in to the kernel, the
> kernel-module-g-ether will not be installed (as it's RRECOMMENDS). The
> usbinit package still will be (unless for some reason it can't be built
> for the target).
>
> I assume this doesn't pose a problem?

Well, hmm, I don't know. The usb-gether script is not very intelligent, 
so I suppose that would result in yet another boot time error message. 
Perhaps testing the result of 'modinfo g_ether' in the script would be a 
good follow-up patch?

Hollis Blanchard
Mentor Graphics, Embedded Systems Division