Re: [docs] [PATCH 1/1] documentation: add doc for KERNEL_SPLIT_MODULES

["Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>]

On Thu May 29, 2025 at 5:22 AM CEST, Dixit Parmar via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> Add the missing documentation for the KERNEL_SPLIT_MODULES variable.
>
> [ YOCTO #15771 ]
>
> Signed-off-by: Dixit Parmar <dixitparmar19@gmail.com>
> ---
>  meta/conf/documentation.conf | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/meta/conf/documentation.conf b/meta/conf/documentation.conf
> index 3dd7bce515..4c8becbdc2 100644
> --- a/meta/conf/documentation.conf
> +++ b/meta/conf/documentation.conf
> @@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ KERNEL_MODULE_AUTOLOAD[doc] = "Lists kernel modules that need to be auto-loaded
>  KERNEL_MODULE_PROBECONF[doc] = "Lists kernel modules for which the build system expects to find module_conf_* values that specify configuration for each of the modules"
>  KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME[doc] = "Name prefix for kernel packages. Defaults to 'kernel'."
>  KERNEL_PATH[doc] = "The location of the kernel sources. This variable is set to the value of the STAGING_KERNEL_DIR within the module class (module.bbclass)."
> +KERNEL_SPLIT_MODULES[doc] = "Allow opt-out of split kernel modules. Default set to 1, one subpackage per module. Setting it 0 will generate a monolithic kernel-modules package containing all modules built from the source."
>  KERNEL_SRC[doc] = "The location of the kernel sources. This variable is set to the value of the STAGING_KERNEL_DIR within the module class (module.bbclass)."
>  KERNEL_LOCALVERSION[doc] = "Appends a string to the name of the local version of the kernel image."
>  KFEATURE_DESCRIPTION[doc] = "Provides a short description of a configuration fragment. You use this variable in the .scc file that describes a configuration fragment file."

Hi,

This should be sent to the openembedded-core mailing list, as it modifies the
openembedded-core layer, not the yocto-docs repository. As Quentin suggested, a
patch modifying yocto-docs/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst would be
appreciated!

Thanks,
Antonin

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Antonin Godard, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com