[oe] [RFC] Rebuild external kernel modules on kernel change

[Koen Kooi]

On 01-06-09 20:17, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 19:25 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> So far I've only seen suggestions that will trigger a rebuild of recipes
>> using module*bbclass, but no solutions for automagic version changes so
>> that the package manager will pick it up as well.
>
> I don't quite understand why this is so complicated; can't you just
> append the kernel's ABI version to either ${PR} or ${PV} (depending on
> whether or not you want parallel installability) for the modules?

No, since PV and PR need to be known at parsing time when the kernel 
hasn't been built yet.

regards,

Koen