From: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: kmod packaging question
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:23:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <525DDC90.4050700@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <525DDB21.4060305@linux.intel.com>
On 10/15/2013 05:17 PM, Saul Wold wrote:
> On 10/14/2013 10:00 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> I'm having some issues with the 'kmod' package. In particular,
>> the package claims:
>> commit b4bc0a7f1b90a51e26d6ab74d964ff81cfe05904
>> Author: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue Jan 31 00:34:01 2012 -0800
>>
>> kmod: Add recipes
>>
>> kmod is replacement for module-init-tools
>>
>> (From OE-Core rev: 716606f5446534e48b45fcc017e8bbdfe7f15e26)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
>>
>> But is is really a "replacement"? I know that there is a provides
>> which makes the build happy, but unless you explicitly install the
>> kmod package into your image, you don't end up with all of the module
>> tools. The main missing piece is 'depmod' - the rest seem to come
>> from busybox, not kmod.
>>
>> I ran into this when trying to run 'opkg upgrade' which sucked in
>> some new kernel modules and found that 'depmod' was not installed.
>>
>> Did I miss something?
>>
> Nope, it was a good catch, I will investigate the size increase for
> adding depmod into busybox.
>
Seems it adds 2240 bytes to the size of the busybox binary, that's far
better than 675K that kmod would bring in. I will get the patch up shortly.
Sau!
> Sau!
>
>> n.b. this was tested using Poky/Yocto
>> 0fc8317c6385eb1ed69ca4522ee6424c456dbb92
>> which is a few days old. I've not checked the very latest master (yet).
>>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-14 17:00 kmod packaging question Gary Thomas
2013-10-16 0:17 ` Saul Wold
2013-10-16 0:23 ` Saul Wold [this message]
2013-10-16 3:44 ` Gary Thomas
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