[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] systemtap-uprobes: inhibit package strip

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2012-08-02 at 07:19 -0700, Wade Farnsworth wrote:
> uprobes.ko is not located in /lib/modules, so it fails the check in
> runstrip that ensures that only the debug section is stripped, leaving
> the symbols untouched.  This prevents the module from being inserted at
> run time.  Inhibiting package stripping fixes the problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wade Farnsworth <wade_farnsworth at mentor.com>
> ---
>  .../systemtap/systemtap-uprobes_git.bb             |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/systemtap/systemtap-uprobes_git.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/systemtap/systemtap-uprobes_git.bb
> index b328e6b..f135a54 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/systemtap/systemtap-uprobes_git.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/systemtap/systemtap-uprobes_git.bb
> @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ PR = "r0"
>  # On systems without CONFIG_UTRACE, this package is empty.
>  ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
>  
> +INHIBIT_PACKAGE_STRIP = "1"
> +
>  inherit module-base gettext
>  
>  FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/systemtap/runtime/uprobes"

I think we need to teach package.bbclass to identify kernel modules
better (.ko extension?) rather than hack around this for each external
module...

Cheers,

Richard