[yocto] Kernel modules packaged but not installed

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 1:40 PM Dimitris Tassopoulos <dimtass at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Bruce,
>
> I've also tried adding the `kernel-modules` in the IMAGE_INSTALL,
> but that doesn't help either, because as I've mentioned this package
> is empty.
>
> The individual module packages are indeed populated and adding each
> one individually in the IMAGE_INSTALL makes them install in the final
> image.
>
> So the problem is that the `kernel-modules` doesn't add all the module
> packages in one package and it's empty. Therefore, when it's installed
> it installs nothing.

The kernel-modules package is a meta-package. It is supposed to be
empty. It has RDEPENDS on all of the other modules that were built. So
if you install it, it pulls in all of the build and packaged modules.

That works for rpm/ipk, or whatever package format you are using.

Bruce

>
> Regards,
> Dimitris
>
> Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at gmail.com> schrieb am Mi., 6. Nov. 2019, 17:20:
>>
>> 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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