[yocto] Build external module against Yocto kernel

[Patrick Turley]

On Jan 22, 2013, at 11:17 PM, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at windriver.com> wrote:

> On 13-01-23 12:14 AM, Patrick Turley wrote:
>> On Jan 22, 2013, at 10:43 PM, Bruce Ashfield<bruce.ashfield at windriver.com>  wrote:
>>> On 13-01-22 9:26 PM, Patrick Turley wrote:
>>>> If I just hold down the "Enter" key, I believe all the defaults are taken, and I eventually *do* get hostprogs that execute, but I don't know if they're appropriate to my kernel. (Again, I'm a n00b, so perhaps there's no effect at all.)
>>> 
>>> This will be fine, the defaults will work. The kernel build infrastructure
>>> is picking up what it thinks is a change source ->  to config and trying
>>> to reconcile the differences.
>>> 
>>> If you throw in a 'make oldconfig' before you do the 'make scripts', does
>>> that quiet things down a bit ?
>> 
>> No -- "make oldconfig" caused the very same questions (see below).
> 
> Aha. of course (now that I think about it), the build was simply triggering
> old config automatically.
> 
> silentoldconfig is what I really should have typed :)


Nope - still doesn't work.

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$ sudo make silentoldconfig
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/docproc
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.o
  SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
  SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c
  SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
  HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/conf
scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig
*
* Restart config...
*
*
* General setup
*
Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers (EXPERIMENTAL) [Y/n/?] y
Cross-compiler tool prefix (CROSS_COMPILE) [] 
Local version - append to kernel release (LOCALVERSION) [] 
Automatically append version information to the version string (LOCALVERSION_AUTO) [N/y/?] n
Kernel compression mode
> 1. Gzip (KERNEL_GZIP)
  2. Bzip2 (KERNEL_BZIP2) (NEW)
  3. LZMA (KERNEL_LZMA)
  4. LZO (KERNEL_LZO)
choice[1-4?]: