[Buildroot] [PATCH 01/11 v2] package-infra: add helper to build kernel modules

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Thu Jun 11 18:05:01 UTC 2015


Doug, All,

On 2015-06-10 16:08 -0500, rdkehn at yahoo.com spake thusly:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 09:22:05PM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > The Linux kernel offers a nice and easy-to-use infra to build
> > out-of-tree kernel modules.
> > 
> > Currently, we have quite a few packages that build kernel modules, and
> > most duplicate (or rewrite) the same code over-and-over again.
> > 
> > Introduce a new infrastructure that provides helpers to build kernel
> > modules, so packages do not have to duplicate/rewrite that.
> > 
> > The infrastructure, unlike any other package infra, is not standalone.
> > It needs another package infra to be used. This is so that packages that
> > provide both userland and kernel modules can be built easily. So, this
> > infra only defines post-build and post-install hooks, that will build
> > the kernel modules after the rest of the package.
> > 
> > Also, no host version is provided, since it does not make sense to build
> > kernel modules for the host.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> > Cc: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
> > Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>
> Tested-by: Doug Kehn <rdkehn at yahoo.com>

Sorry, I forgot to propagate your Tested-by tag from the previous
iteration. I'll do for the next one.

Thanks! :-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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