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authorNitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>2014-09-30 14:40:05 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2014-10-06 00:13:41 +0100
commitaafa4bc896eb944aa4fc406807dd7e02f4b9b7ba (patch)
tree535265f872b140ae66555f40d096ebe10c61048d
parentc067e52cffe002de3b39aa1bced308dd532859c1 (diff)
downloadopenembedded-core-contrib-aafa4bc896eb944aa4fc406807dd7e02f4b9b7ba.tar.gz
kernel.bbclass: enable a link for external module building
Even though the kernel-dev package provides the required support for building external kernel modules on the target, some commonly used scripts and utilities fail as they are not finding the kernel module build support files at the desired location. Create the /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/build link on target pointing to the sources provided by the kernel-dev package, to fix the issue. Fixes Bug: [YOCTO #2968] Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--meta/classes/kernel.bbclass3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
index 0782923fcb..f300fa3eb6 100644
--- a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ kernel_do_install() {
#
kerneldir=${D}${KERNEL_SRC_PATH}
install -d $kerneldir
+ ln -sf ${KERNEL_SRC_PATH} "${D}/lib/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}/build"
#
# Store the kernel version in sysroots for module-base.bbclass
@@ -346,7 +347,7 @@ PACKAGES = "kernel kernel-base kernel-vmlinux kernel-image kernel-dev kernel-mod
FILES_${PN} = ""
FILES_kernel-base = "/lib/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}/modules.order /lib/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}/modules.builtin"
FILES_kernel-image = "/boot/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}*"
-FILES_kernel-dev = "/boot/System.map* /boot/Module.symvers* /boot/config* ${KERNEL_SRC_PATH}"
+FILES_kernel-dev = "/boot/System.map* /boot/Module.symvers* /boot/config* ${KERNEL_SRC_PATH} /lib/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}/build"
FILES_kernel-vmlinux = "/boot/vmlinux*"
FILES_kernel-modules = ""
RDEPENDS_kernel = "kernel-base"