From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (mail.mlbassoc.com [65.100.170.105]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C356CBA4 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 03:44:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id 73704F811FE; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 21:44:05 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 Received: from [192.168.1.114] (zeus [192.168.1.114]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 773D4F811E0; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 21:44:03 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <525E0B8D.8070008@mlbassoc.com> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 21:44:13 -0600 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Saul Wold References: <525C2320.8000502@mlbassoc.com> <525DDB21.4060305@linux.intel.com> <525DDC90.4050700@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <525DDC90.4050700@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 03:44:03 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2013-10-15 18:23, Saul Wold wrote: > 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. Cool, thanks!! >>> 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 >> >> -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------