Re: [PATCH 1/2] linux-module: create S if not existing

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

Am Thu,  7 Jul 2022 17:46:33 +0200
schrieb Felix Moessbauer <felix.moessbauer@siemens.com>:

> We copy the debian folder into S, but at do_prepare_build
> time S might not have been created yet.
> This patch makes sure that the directory is created if
> it does not exist.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Felix Moessbauer <felix.moessbauer@siemens.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-kernel/linux-module/module.inc | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-module/module.inc
> b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-module/module.inc index
> 50acfe14..97eff294 100644 ---
> a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-module/module.inc +++
> b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-module/module.inc @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
> TEMPLATE_FILES = "debian/control.tmpl \ debian/rules.tmpl"
>  TEMPLATE_VARS += "KERNEL_NAME KERNEL_TYPE KERNEL_IMAGE_PKG
> KERNEL_HEADERS_PKG PN" 
> +do_prepare_build[dirs] += "${S}"
>  do_prepare_build() {
>      cp -r ${WORKDIR}/debian ${S}/

A little weird but i know the module you write that for is weird on its
own ... nvidia. But what we do here is put packaging metadata into the
code, which should be there after unpack ... everything else is "weird"
... no code no packaging needed.

But hey it does not hurt.

Henning