[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH 1/2] iproute2: add bbappend for supporting tipc tool

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Randy MacLeod
<randy.macleod at windriver.com> wrote:
> On 2017-08-18 02:10 AM, Yi Zhao wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> 在 2017年08月17日 22:01, Khem Raj 写道:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 11:40 PM, Yi Zhao <yi.zhao at windriver.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The tipcutils 2.2 removed the tipc-config tool and recommended to use
>>>> the new configuration tool named "tipc" in iproute2 package for
>>>> configuring the tipc, which utilizes the new tipc netlink kernel API.
>>>>
>>>> We supported tipc in iproute2 with PACKAGECONFIG in oe-core commit
>>>> 944ef0de241de77429ab0e5cb1dd4a7f355cf3fd
>>>>
>>>> Add iproute2 bbappend to enable tipc for tipcutils.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Yi Zhao <yi.zhao at windriver.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>   meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/iproute2/iproute2_%.bbappend | 2 ++
>>>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>>>   create mode 100644
>>>> meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/iproute2/iproute2_%.bbappend
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/iproute2/iproute2_%.bbappend
>>>> b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/iproute2/iproute2_%.bbappend
>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>> index 0000000..0869f7f
>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>> +++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/iproute2/iproute2_%.bbappend
>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
>>>> +# For tipcutils
>>>> +PACKAGECONFIG_append = " tipc"
>>>
>>> can we do it in recipe proper itself ?
>>
>>
>> Hi Khem,
>>
>> The tipc in iproute2 needs libmnl as dependency.  Currently libmnl is in
>> meta-networking and there are some packages in meta-networking need it as
>> dependency, so we can not enable tipc build in oe-core directly.
>> If we want to enable it in iproute2 recipe directly, we should move libmnl
>> to oe-core. I don't know if it is worth to do that because few people need
>> tipc. How do you think about it ?
>
>
> We should move libmnl and the iproute2 change to oe-core.
>\

thats reasonable I think

> By default, TIPC is enabled as a module in YP kernel:
>
> $ grep TIPC
> tmp-glibc/work/qemuppc-oe-linux/linux-yocto/4.10.17+gitAUTOINC+e92bd55409_6648a34e00-r0/linux-qemuppc-standard-build/.config
> CONFIG_TIPC=m
> CONFIG_TIPC_MEDIA_UDP=y
>
> so it should be configurable with just the oe-core layer.
>
> Once libmnl is in oe-core, we could move nftables,
> "the successor to iptables" to oe-core say at the start of
> the 2.5 dev cycle.
>
> ../Randy
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Yi
>>
>>>
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