From: Florian Boor <florian.boor@kernelconcepts.de>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [meta-oe][PATCH] vboxguestdrivers: import recipe from meta-luneos
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 11:55:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54F441BA.7090602@kernelconcepts.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150302102611.GY2309@jama>
Hi,
On 02.03.2015 11:26, Martin Jansa wrote:
>> Please don't ever RDEPEND on kernel modules, even when the recipe will
>> build them, it sets a bad precedent.
> I think it makes sense in this case.. nobody will ever include them in
> kernel image and vboxguestdrivers utils don't make much sense without the
> modules installed.
I see its unlikely but in some cases (e.g. highly secure environments) you do
not want to use modules at all. So unless there is a real need to depend on
the modules I would just recommend it.
Greetings
Florian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-02 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-02 8:02 [meta-oe][PATCH] vboxguestdrivers: import recipe from meta-luneos Martin Jansa
2015-03-02 10:22 ` Koen Kooi
2015-03-02 10:26 ` Martin Jansa
2015-03-02 10:55 ` Florian Boor [this message]
2015-03-02 11:33 ` Martin Jansa
2015-03-03 9:19 ` Koen Kooi
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