[oe] Bug in kernel-arch.bbclass

[Khem Raj]

On Tuesday 24 March 2009 02:35:20 Henning Heinold wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> while compiling 2.6.28 for wrap board(geodegx) I noticed that the asm-headers didnt install into staging.
> After examine kernel-arch.bbclass and kernel.bblcass I found the following lines 
> 
> kernel-arch.bbclass
> 
> def map_kernel_arch(a, d):
>         import bb, re
> 
>         valid_archs = bb.data.getVar('valid_archs', d, 1).split()
> 
>         if   re.match('(i.86|athlon)$', a):     return '386'
>         elif re.match('arm26$', a):             return 'arm26'
>         elif re.match('armeb$', a):             return 'arm'
>         elif re.match('mipsel$', a):            return 'mips'
>         elif re.match('sh(3|4)$', a):           return 'sh'
>         elif re.match('bfin', a):               return 'blackfin'
>         elif a in valid_archs:                  return a
>         else:
>                 bb.error("cannot map '%s' to a linux kernel architecture" % a)
> 
> export ARCH = "${@map_kernel_arch(bb.data.getVar('TARGET_ARCH', d, 1), d)}"
> 
> 
> kernel.bbclass
> 
> kernel_do_stage() {
>         ASMDIR=`readlink include/asm`
> 
>         mkdir -p ${STAGING_KERNEL_DIR}/include/$ASMDIR
>         cp -fR include/$ASMDIR/* ${STAGING_KERNEL_DIR}/include/$ASMDIR/
>         # Kernel 2.6.27 moved headers from includes/asm-${ARCH} to arch/${ARCH}/include/asm
>         if [ -e arch/${ARCH}/include/asm/ ] ; then
>                 cp -fR arch/${ARCH}/include/asm/* ${STAGING_KERNEL_DIR}/include/$ASMDIR/
>                 install -d ${STAGING_KERNEL_DIR}/arch/${ARCH}/include
>                 cp -fR arch/${ARCH}/* ${STAGING_KERNEL_DIR}/arch/${ARCH}/
> 
> As you can see this can not work because the ARCH-variable is set to 386 and so the "-e arch/${ARCH}/include/asm/"
> is not true. For backward compatiblity I attached a patch, which covers this problem.
> 
> Is this okay for checkin?

your patch installs like old dir structure, I wonder if it should install in arch/$ARCH/include too
> 
> 
> Bye Henning
> 


-- 
Khem Raj
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