Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 01/19] kernal-vars: introduce new class

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, 2026-07-11 at 01:23 -0400, Vincent Davis Jr via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> This class is introduced to fix an issue
> when KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME is changed.
> 
> A number of recipes rely on hard coded
> kernel prefix set by KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME
> when including modules. This leads to build
> time failures.
> 
> Such as
> 
> ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES 'kernel-module-*'
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Davis Jr <vince@underview.tech>
> ---
>  meta/classes-recipe/kernel-vars.bbclass | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 meta/classes-recipe/kernel-vars.bbclass
> 
> diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/kernel-vars.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/kernel-vars.bbclass
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..1acfeb97ea
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/meta/classes-recipe/kernel-vars.bbclass
> @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
> +#
> +# Copyright OpenEmbedded Contributors
> +#
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
> +#
> +
> +KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME ??= "kernel"

We are definitely not adding yet another kernel class, particularly for
a single line. There has to be a better way to solve the problem...

Cheers,

Richard