From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QFfJd-0006V8-Rm for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:28:30 +0200 Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 28 Apr 2011 21:25:55 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.64,284,1301900400"; d="scan'208";a="740020090" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.255.13.24]) ([10.255.13.24]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 28 Apr 2011 21:25:54 -0700 Message-ID: <4DBA3DD1.7050908@linux.intel.com> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:25:53 -0700 From: Darren Hart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer References: <4DB562CF.1020100@mlbassoc.com> <4DB59811.5040109@linux.intel.com> <4DB5ABDB.9070201@mlbassoc.com> <4DB65C5B.2050409@linux.intel.com> <1303982741.21461.48.camel@rex> In-Reply-To: <1303982741.21461.48.camel@rex> Cc: Koen Kooi , Kang Kai Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/37] modutils-initscripts: fix wrong order of module loading happening in udev X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 04:28:30 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 04/28/2011 02:25 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 10:51 -0700, Khem Raj wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Darren Hart wrote: >>> On 04/25/2011 10:14 AM, Gary Thomas wrote: >>> >>> Right, so for clarification, for 2.4 kernels, images should be built >>> using just the modutils_2.4.27.bb recipe. For 2.6 kernels, images should >>> be built using module_init_tools and modutils-initscripts. >>> >>> In oe-core, task-base requires module-init-tools and task-core-boot >>> requires modutils-initscripts. That actually seems backwards to me as >>> modutils-initscripts is useless without module-init-tools. >>> >>> There is a considerable amount of cruft in the kernel base classes >>> related to older kernels which I'd like to see purged. Perhaps a >>> meta-linux-2.4 layer would be a good place to keep things like these as >>> well as the modutils_2.4.27 recipe. >> >> Do we have usecases to even support 2.4 anymore ? I would suggest >> to remove it if no use cases are reported. > > I think the time has come for OE-Core to clean out kernel.bbclass of the > 2.4 code. If anyone does want to support 2.4, they can do it with a > separate kernel-2.4 class. Excellent. Added to my todo list for the not toooo distant future. > > Cheers, > > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto Project - Linux Kernel