[oe] PATCH: make h2200-bootloader load & depend on mtdblock

Richard Purdie rpurdie at rpsys.net
Thu Jul 24 09:08:10 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 20:08 +1200, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Koen Kooi wrote:
> > Never ever rdepend on a kernelmodules, since it might be built in to the
> > kernel in the future (like it was in the past), only use
> >
> > RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "kernel-module-foo"
> 
> OK, so please excuse my ignorance and I don't have OE in front of me to
> test it, but does that mean that kernel-module-mtdblock will be included
> in images where h2200-bootloader is included? If not, then it needs to be
> done some other way.

Yes, its standard practise to RRECOMMEND kernel modules since if they're
built into the kernel you get build failures otherwise. The RRECOMMEND
is a standard approach and well tested.

Regards,

Richard





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