[yocto] Kernel modules packaged but not installed

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 11:06 AM Dimitris Tassopoulos <dimtass at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all. I have a weird issue with the kernel modules not being installed in the image and also not packaged.
> I see the packages for individual "kernel-module-*.ipk" modules but the "kernel-modules_*.ipk" is always
> empty.
>
> I'm also able to see the "modules-${MACHINE}.tgz" in DEPLOYDIR which has all the modules in there, just fine.
>
> In my image file I've also set this:
> MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS += "kernel-modules"

Have you tried something stronger than the RRECOMMENDS ? i.e. either
adding one of the modules, or the kernel-modules meta package to
IMAGE_INSTALL ?

Bruce

>
> This is the kernel recipe:
> https://gitlab.com/dimtass/meta-allwinner-hx/blob/master/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-stable_4.19.bb
>
> And this is the conf folder
> https://gitlab.com/dimtass/meta-allwinner-hx/tree/master/conf
>
> For some reason I can't figure out why modules are not ending up in the image.
>
> If I do it manually in a do_install_append like this:
> do_install_append() {
>     # Install kernel-modules
> install -d ${D}${nonarch_base_libdir}
>     oe_runmake INSTALL_MOD_PATH=${D} modules_install
> }
>
> then it works, but I guess that shouldn't be the right way.
>
> Any suggestions or ideas?
>
> Thanks!
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