[oe] MACHINE_KERNEL_PR issue

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2009/10/26 Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com>:
> 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
>

Two more things:

We have about 83 recipes that do inherit module.
and 12 that have MACHINE_KERNEL_PR (10 ti ones, linux omap pm and
open-iscsi which I just added)
so ti seems 71 have a problem

and why not change the class and add _$(PR) or so instead of _append ?

Frans