If a kernel is built without any external modules (aka no CONFIG_*=m), then during a modules_install of the kernel an empty directory is created at /lib/modules/${KERNEL_VERIONS}/kernel. This is behaviour of the kernel infrastructure, the directory would normally be populated with the modules that were built.
However because of the expectations of kernel-modules-split, no packages are created when there are no modules and an empty directory lingers. This raises QA issues as warning or errors (depending on the distro). The following patch changes the kernel_do_install task to check if the directory is empty and if so removes it. Signed-off-by: Nathan Rossi <nathan.ro...@xilinx.com> --- meta/classes/kernel.bbclass | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass index 5fef446..6b4e992 100644 --- a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass +++ b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass @@ -183,6 +183,10 @@ kernel_do_install() { oe_runmake DEPMOD=echo INSTALL_MOD_PATH="${D}" modules_install rm "${D}/lib/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}/build" rm "${D}/lib/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}/source" + # If the kernel/ directory is empty remove it to prevent QA issues + if [ ! "$(ls -A "${D}/lib/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}/kernel")" ]; then + rm -r "${D}/lib/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}/kernel" + fi else bbnote "no modules to install" fi -- 1.7.9.5 _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core