[OE-core] [PATCH] kernel: remove unused 'etc' directory

[Saul Wold]

I assume this patch is for Denzil?  It seems that the current OE-Core 
master has etc in that list.

Please confirm

Sau!

On 09/12/2012 06:41 AM, Mark Asselstine wrote:
> Along with checks to remove empty modprobe.d and modules-load.d
> directories we can add a similar check and removal of the etc
> directory. This will avoid warnings by the sanity checker.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine at windriver.com>
> CC: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at windriver.com>
> ---
>
> There is some concern that removing this directory could cause issues
> if folks are adding to etc in a bbappend and not checking for and
> creating this directory. I don't believe this is an issue as if you
> want to add something to etc it should be done as part of a
> populate_packages_prepend or earlier since there are sanity checks run
> as part of populate_packages, so the removal here is being done at the
> latest possible point in the process (populate_packages_prepend in a
> bbappend will run before the populate_packages_prepend in
> kernel.bbclass).
>
>   meta/classes/kernel.bbclass |    2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
> index 5e04fda..decf6f5 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
> @@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ python populate_packages_prepend () {
>       # avoid warnings. removedirs only raises an OSError if an empty
>       # directory cannot be removed.
>       dvar = d.getVar('PKGD', True)
> -    for dir in ["%s/etc/modprobe.d" % (dvar), "%s/etc/modules-load.d" % (dvar)]:
> +    for dir in ["%s/etc/modprobe.d" % (dvar), "%s/etc/modules-load.d" % (dvar), "%s/etc/" % (dvar)]:
>           if len(os.listdir(dir)) == 0:
>               os.rmdir(dir)
>
>