[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] cpupower: remove LIC_FILES_CHKSUM

Nicolas Dechesne nicolas.dechesne at linaro.org
Thu May 9 20:29:14 UTC 2019


cpupower is a 'special' recipe since it does "inherit kernelsrc" ,
which essentially means that it doesn't have its own sources, but
reuse the kernel source tree, from virtual/kernel recipe. As such,
checking the license file in cpupower recipe does not seem relevant,
since it does not fetch anything (kernelsrc has "deltask do_fetch")
and the fetching is deferred to the virtual/kernel recipe.

so we are basically checking the COPYING file twice. If there was any
license issue, it would have been caught by virtual/kernel recipe
already.

Hence we remove LIC_FILES_CHKSUM like it is done for perf recipe in
OE-core in meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf.bb.

It has the nice side effect that BSP layers can use different kernel
versions without worrying about any LICENSE checksum changes in
between kernel versions.

Reported-by: Daniel Díaz <daniel.diaz at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dechesne <nicolas.dechesne at linaro.org>
---
 meta-oe/recipes-kernel/cpupower/cpupower.bb | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/cpupower/cpupower.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/cpupower/cpupower.bb
index 5798440e9..cf70eb2c8 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/cpupower/cpupower.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/cpupower/cpupower.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ SUMMARY = "Shows and sets processor power related values"
 DESCRIPTION = "cpupower is a collection of tools to examine and tune power \
 saving related features of your processor."
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=bbea815ee2795b2f4230826c0c6b8814"
 DEPENDS = "pciutils gettext-native"
 PROVIDES = "virtual/cpupower"
 
-- 
2.20.1



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