kernel.bbclass, module.bbclass: Make update-modules optional

The update-modules mechanism is something of a historical relic and it isn't
entirely clear that it has a great deal of value nowadays.  Also, it causes a
problem when building a read-only rootfs since update-modules itself refuses
to configure offline.

Allow DISTROs to circumvent this whole thing by declaring (via DISTRO_FEATURES)
that they don't wish to use update-modules.  This is backfilled for existing
distributions and will have to be marked as CONSIDERED by those who actually
don't want it.

(From OE-Core rev: 14bf8ed115453077b4d4042b4b70ed6b3bca2a9f)

Signed-off-by: Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Phil Blundell 2012-09-26 13:02:26 +01:00 committed by Richard Purdie
parent 895994afd8
commit 8f85691860
3 changed files with 18 additions and 10 deletions

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@ -398,10 +398,12 @@ python populate_packages_prepend () {
dvar = d.getVar('PKGD', True)
use_update_modules = oe.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'update-modules', True, False, d)
# If autoloading is requested, output /etc/modules-load.d/<name>.conf and append
# appropriate modprobe commands to the postinst
autoload = d.getVar('module_autoload_%s' % basename, True)
if autoload:
if autoload and use_update_modules:
name = '%s/etc/modules-load.d/%s.conf' % (dvar, basename)
f = open(name, 'w')
for m in autoload.split():
@ -415,15 +417,16 @@ python populate_packages_prepend () {
# Write out any modconf fragment
modconf = d.getVar('module_conf_%s' % basename, True)
if modconf:
if modconf and use_update_modules:
name = '%s/etc/modprobe.d/%s.conf' % (dvar, basename)
f = open(name, 'w')
f.write("%s\n" % modconf)
f.close()
files = d.getVar('FILES_%s' % pkg, True)
files = "%s /etc/modules-load.d/%s.conf /etc/modprobe.d/%s.conf" % (files, basename, basename)
d.setVar('FILES_%s' % pkg, files)
if use_update_modules:
files = d.getVar('FILES_%s' % pkg, True)
files = "%s /etc/modules-load.d/%s.conf /etc/modprobe.d/%s.conf" % (files, basename, basename)
d.setVar('FILES_%s' % pkg, files)
if vals.has_key("description"):
old_desc = d.getVar('DESCRIPTION_' + pkg, True) or ""
@ -439,12 +442,17 @@ python populate_packages_prepend () {
module_regex = '^(.*)\.k?o$'
module_pattern = 'kernel-module-%s'
postinst = d.getVar('pkg_postinst_modules', True)
postrm = d.getVar('pkg_postrm_modules', True)
use_update_modules = oe.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'update-modules', True, False, d)
if use_update_modules:
postinst = d.getVar('pkg_postinst_modules', True)
postrm = d.getVar('pkg_postrm_modules', True)
else:
postinst = None
postrm = None
do_split_packages(d, root='/lib/firmware', file_regex='^(.*)\.bin$', output_pattern='kernel-firmware-%s', description='Firmware for %s', recursive=True, extra_depends='')
do_split_packages(d, root='/lib/firmware', file_regex='^(.*)\.fw$', output_pattern='kernel-firmware-%s', description='Firmware for %s', recursive=True, extra_depends='')
do_split_packages(d, root='/lib/firmware', file_regex='^(.*)\.cis$', output_pattern='kernel-firmware-%s', description='Firmware for %s', recursive=True, extra_depends='')
do_split_packages(d, root='/lib/modules', file_regex=module_regex, output_pattern=module_pattern, description='%s kernel module', postinst=postinst, postrm=postrm, recursive=True, hook=frob_metadata, extra_depends='update-modules kernel-%s' % d.getVar("KERNEL_VERSION", True))
do_split_packages(d, root='/lib/modules', file_regex=module_regex, output_pattern=module_pattern, description='%s kernel module', postinst=postinst, postrm=postrm, recursive=True, hook=frob_metadata, extra_depends='%skernel-%s' % (['', 'update-modules '][use_update_modules], d.getVar("KERNEL_VERSION", True)))
# If modules-load.d and modprobe.d are empty at this point, remove them to
# avoid warnings. removedirs only raises an OSError if an empty

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@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
RDEPENDS += "kernel-image update-modules"
RDEPENDS_${PN} += "kernel-image ${@oe.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'update-modules', 'update-modules', '', d)}"
DEPENDS += "virtual/kernel"
inherit module-base

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@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RDEPENDS ?= ""
MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS ?= ""
IMAGE_FEATURES += "${EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES}"
DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL = "pulseaudio"
DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL = "pulseaudio update-modules"
DISTRO_FEATURES_append = "${@oe.utils.features_backfill("DISTRO_FEATURES",d)}"
MACHINE_FEATURES_BACKFILL = "rtc"