From: Phil Blundell <[email protected]>

The modules.tar.gz archive is sometimes of no value and it can take
a noticeable time to build if many modules were enabled in the kernel
configuration.  The extraneous file also contributes to deploy/ clutter
and is a waste of disk space.

Allow it to be suppressed by setting MODULE_TARBALL_DEPLOY="0".

Signed-off-by: Phil Blundell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <[email protected]>
---
 meta/classes/kernel.bbclass | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
index 9c70e70..96b23bc 100644
--- a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
@@ -501,6 +501,7 @@ MODULE_TARBALL_BASE_NAME ?= 
"modules-${PE}-${PV}-${PR}-${MACHINE}-${DATETIME}.tg
 # Don't include the DATETIME variable in the sstate package signatures
 MODULE_TARBALL_BASE_NAME[vardepsexclude] = "DATETIME"
 MODULE_TARBALL_SYMLINK_NAME ?= "modules-${MACHINE}.tgz"
+MODULE_TARBALL_DEPLOY ?= "1"
 
 do_uboot_mkimage() {
        if test "x${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}" = "xuImage" ; then 
@@ -529,7 +530,7 @@ addtask uboot_mkimage before do_install after do_compile
 
 kernel_do_deploy() {
        install -m 0644 ${KERNEL_OUTPUT} 
${DEPLOYDIR}/${KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE_NAME}.bin
-       if (grep -q -i -e '^CONFIG_MODULES=y$' .config); then
+       if [ ${MODULE_TARBALL_DEPLOY} = "1" ] && (grep -q -i -e 
'^CONFIG_MODULES=y$' .config); then
                tar -cvzf ${DEPLOYDIR}/${MODULE_TARBALL_BASE_NAME} -C ${D} lib
                ln -sf ${MODULE_TARBALL_BASE_NAME}.bin 
${MODULE_TARBALL_SYMLINK_NAME}
        fi
-- 
1.8.0.2


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