Question about kernel.bbclass and staging kernel headers

Question about kernel.bbclass and staging kernel headers

[Dmitry Fink]

Hi,
I've noticed that kernel.bbclass has a bunch of logic for manually copying
kernel headers into the staging area
(with a lot of logic for handling symlinks and different locations of asm
and arch folders in different kernel version),
I was wondering if there is a special reason for doing that instead of just
runninig "oe_runmake headers_install" like
linux-libc-headers recipes do. Speaking of which, I don't understand what
linux-libc-headers recipes are for then,
why are there two different mechanisms for installing headers? I must be
missing something, appreciate your help.

Thanks!
Dmitry Fink

Re: Question about kernel.bbclass and staging kernel headers

[Koen Kooi]

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On 05-10-10 08:36, Dmitry Fink wrote:
> Hi,
> I've noticed that kernel.bbclass has a bunch of logic for manually copying
> kernel headers into the staging area
> (with a lot of logic for handling symlinks and different locations of asm
> and arch folders in different kernel version),
> I was wondering if there is a special reason for doing that instead of just
> runninig "oe_runmake headers_install" like
> linux-libc-headers recipes do. 

We have a number of recipes that use private kernel api and need more
headers than headers_install installs :(

regards,

Koen
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