On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 6:52 AM Ross Burton <r...@burtonini.com> wrote:
>
> As kernel modules depend on the base kernel package, and the base kernel
> recipe depends on the kernel image, it's impossible to build file system
> images which contain kernel modules but not the kernel itself, such as
> an initramfs.
>
> Change the RDEPENDS to RRECOMMENDS so that the disk images can set
> PACKAGE_EXCLUDE = "kernel-image-*" to remove the kernel.
>

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfi...@gmail.com>

> Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.bur...@arm.com>
> ---
>  meta/classes/kernel.bbclass | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
> index 880ee614064..4f304eb9c7a 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
> @@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ FILES:${KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME}-modules = ""
>  RDEPENDS:${KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME} = "${KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME}-base (= 
> ${EXTENDPKGV})"
>  # Allow machines to override this dependency if kernel image files are
>  # not wanted in images as standard
> -RDEPENDS:${KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME}-base ?= "${KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME}-image (= 
> ${EXTENDPKGV})"
> +RRECOMMENDS:${KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME}-base ?= "${KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME}-image (= 
> ${EXTENDPKGV})"
>  PKG:${KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME}-image = 
> "${KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME}-image-${@legitimize_package_name(d.getVar('KERNEL_VERSION'))}"
>  RDEPENDS:${KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME}-image += 
> "${@oe.utils.conditional('KERNEL_IMAGETYPE', 'vmlinux', 
> '${KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME}-vmlinux (= ${EXTENDPKGV})', '', d)}"
>  PKG:${KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME}-base = 
> "${KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME}-${@legitimize_package_name(d.getVar('KERNEL_VERSION'))}"
> --
> 2.25.1
>
>
> 
>


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