From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 20:05:01 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/11 v2] package-infra: add helper to build kernel modules In-Reply-To: <20150610210819.GD26406@dkarchlinux64.currentcomm.com> References: <20150610210819.GD26406@dkarchlinux64.currentcomm.com> Message-ID: <20150611180501.GB3689@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Doug, All, On 2015-06-10 16:08 -0500, rdkehn at yahoo.com spake thusly: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 09:22:05PM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > > The Linux kernel offers a nice and easy-to-use infra to build > > out-of-tree kernel modules. > > > > Currently, we have quite a few packages that build kernel modules, and > > most duplicate (or rewrite) the same code over-and-over again. > > > > Introduce a new infrastructure that provides helpers to build kernel > > modules, so packages do not have to duplicate/rewrite that. > > > > The infrastructure, unlike any other package infra, is not standalone. > > It needs another package infra to be used. This is so that packages that > > provide both userland and kernel modules can be built easily. So, this > > infra only defines post-build and post-install hooks, that will build > > the kernel modules after the rest of the package. > > > > Also, no host version is provided, since it does not make sense to build > > kernel modules for the host. > > > > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" > > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni > > Cc: Baruch Siach > > Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle > Tested-by: Doug Kehn Sorry, I forgot to propagate your Tested-by tag from the previous iteration. I'll do for the next one. Thanks! :-) Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'