[yocto] how to handle a source tree with both user-space and kernel module sources

[Khem Raj]

On Mar 4, 2013, at 9:53 AM, Hans Beckérus <hans.beckerus at gmail.com> wrote:

> How could a package that is part of one single git repo but contains
> both user-space libraries and several kernel modules be built?
> Is there some existing "best praxis" that could be applied?
> Currently what we have done is to split this into two recipes, one
> that inherits from autotools and the other that inherit from module.
> This works fine, but... The problem now is that there will be two
> copies of the source repo, one in each package. Is there some way that
> a recipe can
> inherit from both autotools and module and thus use two different S
> targets? Or is our current approach the only way to easily do this,
> and thus having two copies
> of the repo is just a side-effect that we simply need to accept?
> Splitting the source repo is almost out of the questions since they
> are heavily dependent on shared header files etc.
> 

having two recipes is a good approach.  You can beat app and module
builds into same recipe but recipe becomes quite cluttered so its your priority
what you would prefer. 

> Hans
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