[OE-core] [PATCH 07/37] modutils-initscripts: fix wrong order of module loading happening in udev

[Darren Hart]

On 04/28/2011 02:25 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 10:51 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>> On 04/25/2011 10:14 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>
>>> Right, so for clarification, for 2.4 kernels, images should be built
>>> using just the modutils_2.4.27.bb recipe. For 2.6 kernels, images should
>>> be built using module_init_tools and modutils-initscripts.
>>>
>>> In oe-core, task-base requires module-init-tools and task-core-boot
>>> requires modutils-initscripts. That actually seems backwards to me as
>>> modutils-initscripts is useless without module-init-tools.
>>>
>>> There is a considerable amount of cruft in the kernel base classes
>>> related to older kernels which I'd like to see purged. Perhaps a
>>> meta-linux-2.4 layer would be a good place to keep things like these as
>>> well as the modutils_2.4.27 recipe.
>>
>> Do we have usecases to even support 2.4 anymore ? I would suggest
>> to remove it if no use cases are reported.
> 
> I think the time has come for OE-Core to clean out kernel.bbclass of the
> 2.4 code. If anyone does want to support 2.4, they can do it with a
> separate kernel-2.4 class.

Excellent. Added to my todo list for the not toooo distant future.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
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Darren Hart
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