[oe] Broken kernel module dependencies

[Filip Zyzniewski]

BTW, I am using linux-jlime-jornada7xx_2.6.34+git.bb to build the kernel.

On 2/17/11, Filip Zyzniewski <filip.zyzniewski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> lately I have noticed that the bootstrap image I build contains the
> orinoco-cs.ko kernel module, but doesn't contain orinoco.ko (which is
> depended on by orinoco-cs.ko).
>
> The problem is that package has only these dependencies:
> update-modules, kernel-2.6.34
>
> AFAIK dependencies between modules are retrieved by parse_depmod()
> from kernel.bbclass.
>
> Here it returns things like:
>
> { 'kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_cs.ko':
>   ['kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco.ko',
>     'kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko'],
> }
>
> It is later used by get_dependencies() in the same file.
> This function does something like this:
>
> file = file.replace(bb.data.getVar('PKGD', d, 1) or '', '', 1)
> if module_deps.has_key(file):
> [...]
>
> File value in my case (after replacing) is:
> /lib/modules/2.6.34/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_cs.ko
>
> Of course  'kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_cs.ko' !=
> '/lib/modules/2.6.34/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_cs.ko'
> which causes my problem.
>
> What can be done to fix this? How did it get broken (last week or so)?
>
> bye,
> Filip Zyzniewski
>