[Buildroot] [PATCH] usbip: add a new package

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Tue Dec 13 17:35:24 UTC 2016


Tal, All,

On 2016-12-13 00:17 +0200, Tal Shorer spake thusly:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 7:25 PM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:
> > Tal, Arnout, All,
> >
> > On 2016-12-12 10:40 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> >> On 11-12-16 23:30, Tal Shorer wrote:
> >> > Both don't deal with source-check, though. I think we should consider
> >> > linux-tools again at this point, since it doesn't have any of these
> >> > problems (it has its own problems, but I'm beginning to think I'd
> >> > rather deal with those). If nobody objects to this approach I'll
> >>
> >>  +1 to that approach.
> >
> > Still, I don't like the custom autotools commands we'll have to have.
> > What about (mock-up, just for the sake of the example):
> >
> >     ###############
> >     # usbip
> >     ###############
> >
> >     # No USBIP_SITE, no USB_VERSION, we vampirise the code from the
> >     # linux kernel
> >     USBIP_PATCH_DEPENDENCIES = linux
> >
> >     USBIP_SRC_DIR = $)(wildcard \
> >         $(LINUX_DIR)/tools/usb/usbip \
> >         $(LINUX_DIR)/drivers/staging/blabla)
> >
> >     define USBIP_EXTRACT_CMDS
> >         if [ -z "$(USB_SRC_DIR)" ]; then \
> >             echo "No usbip source in your kernel tree" 2>&1; \
> >             exit 1; \
> >         fi
> >         rsync $(USB_SRC_DIR) $(@D)
> >     endef
> >
> >     $(eval $(autotools-package))
> >
> > This way, we still have a proper autotools package, we don;t fail on
> > source-check, and we re-use the kernel sources.
> This works after some modifications.

Yes, it was definitely buggy, it was just a mock-up...

> We end up duplicating the rsync
> command from pkg-generic, but the argument that this is better than
> duplicating the configure command is easily made.

Yes, the rsync command is duplicated, but that one is easier to maintain
than the autotools commands (configure, build, target-install, and
staging-isntall).

> I'll send a new patch

Thanks, I'll review it now.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> >
> > Regards,
> > Yann E. MORIN.
> >
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