[oe] MACHINE_KERNEL_PR issue

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2009/10/26 Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl>:
> On 26-10-09 16:37, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> While creating a recipe which generates a module I bumped into the
>> following issue.
>> If I do
>> inherit module
>> the package name uses MACHINE_KERNEL_PR and not PR.
>> I understand the reason for this: if the kernel is modified you want
>> the proper modules.
>> However in a recipe this means that if the recipe changes for whatever
>> reason that technically one should increase all MACHINE_KERNEL_PR
>> values (as otherwise the new version is not used).
>> In my eyes this is not very desirable.
>>
>> Any opinions how we should fix this?
>
> koen at dominion:/OE/org.openembedded.dev$ grep PR_append recipes/ti/*
> recipes/ti/ti-cmem-module_2.24.01.bb:MACHINE_KERNEL_PR_append = "a"
> recipes/ti/ti-dm355mm-module_1.13.bb:MACHINE_KERNEL_PR_append = "a"
> recipes/ti/ti-dmai_svn.bb:MACHINE_KERNEL_PR_append = "c"
> recipes/ti/ti-dsplink-module_1.61.3.bb:MACHINE_KERNEL_PR_append = "a"
> recipes/ti/ti-lpm-module_2.24.01.bb:MACHINE_KERNEL_PR_append = "a"
> recipes/ti/ti-sdma-module_2.24.01.bb:MACHINE_KERNEL_PR_append = "a"

Ah, ok didn't know about that one and when coined this on #oe no-one
mentioned this solution.
Thanks alot! Frans