[yocto] problem of install kernel module(*.ko) to rootfs folder

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 7:08 PM,  <Neil.Wu at emerson.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> First of all , merry Christmas.
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> I run menuconfig and save the .config as following:
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> CONFIG_SPI_DEV_INTERFACE=m
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> CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-usb-core=m
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> Then I build the linux-yocto and core-image-minimal :
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> Bitbake linux-yocto
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> Bitbake core-image-minimal
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> I expected all the kernel module will install in core-image-minimal rootfs,
> but , in the ./lib/modules/3.4.44-G4 , I just find
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> modules.alias,  modules.alias.bin , modules.builtin.bin,  modules.dep …
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> It have nothing kernel modules (*.ko) file in ./lib/modules/. How to install
> the *.ko to rootfs  automatically ?
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> Someone tell me to change the .config file as these :
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> CONFIG_SPI_DEV_INTERFACE=y
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> CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-usb-core=y
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> I have test it what will build the kernel modules (*.ko ) to kernel image,
> that’s not what I need.
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> so ,   I just want to know . how to install the kernel modules (*.ko) to
> core-image-minimal rootfs ?  If you know it , please help me .

well its a minimal-image so all modules are excluded. You can build
core-image-basic and it should have it
or you can do something like

MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS = " kernel-modules"

in your machine.conf


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> Neil
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