From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BE916D09D for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 00:23:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 15 Oct 2013 17:20:28 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.93,503,1378882800"; d="scan'208";a="393490934" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.255.15.253]) ([10.255.15.253]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 15 Oct 2013 17:23:44 -0700 Message-ID: <525DDC90.4050700@linux.intel.com> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:23:44 -0700 From: Saul Wold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130923 Thunderbird/17.0.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <525C2320.8000502@mlbassoc.com> <525DDB21.4060305@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <525DDB21.4060305@linux.intel.com> Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: kmod packaging question X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 00:23:43 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 >> 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 >> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie >> >> 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). >> > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core > >