Re: [PATCH] include usbinit package with usbgadget feature

[Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>]

On 03/01/2012 03:01 PM, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> 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?
> 

Sounds reasonable to me.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel