Bug 8982 - devtool: add: support out-of-tree kernel modules
Summary: devtool: add: support out-of-tree kernel modules
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: OE-Core
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: devtools / tool chain (show other bugs)
Version: 2.1
Hardware: All Multiple
: Medium enhancement
Target Milestone: 2.1
Assignee: Paul Eggleton
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Reported: 2016-01-22 01:30 UTC by Paul Eggleton
Modified: 2016-03-03 00:39 UTC (History)
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Description Paul Eggleton 2016-01-22 01:30:56 UTC 
Allow "devtool add" to support adding an out-of-tree kernel recipe given a source tree.

I looked into this a bit, and whilst we do have a class and a hello-mod example in meta-skeleton, unfortunately most of the out-of-tree modules I tried to build with it didn't work out of the box since their makefiles didn't understand "modules_install"; apparently we can't rely on much uniformity in terms of how these might be built. Still, we might be able to examine the makefile and make some guesses.