[yocto] Naive Questsions about 3rd Party Kernel Module

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 04:02:21PM -0600, Ronald Oakes wrote:
> Following up as I've done more investigation and debugging this afternoon:
> 
> I've been able to resolve my problem with the missing symbolic link to
> <filename>.so by explicitly including a runtime dependency
> (RDEPENDS_${PN}) to the -dev module, so my link is now present on the
> filesystem image at boot.  I've also found reasonably strong evidence
> that that library contains the function __stack_chk_fail; but the
> evidence could equally indicate that that library calls it as I found
> the string using the strings function.
> 
> Either way, it looks like I have a critical kernel module, and a less
> critical kernel module, that are relying on a shared library that
> either are missing on my image or are not available properly in kernel
> space.  Any suggestions on how I can resolve this would be greatly
> appreciated.

Kernel modules only use kernel code.  They never use user space libraries.
It simply doesn't work that way.

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Len Sorensen