[LEDE-DEV] Using PROVIDES with kmod packages

[Jonas Gorski]

Hi,

On 17 February 2017 at 14:53, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was doing some fun experiments with ssb/bcma/b43 as a research based on:
> [PATCH RFC] kernel: allow selecting kmod-ssb on TARGET_brcm47xx_mips74k
>
> I was trying to build 2 variants of ssb package and 2 variants of b43
> package.
> It didn't work, most likely because of the way PROVIDES is handled. I
> stripped
> down my changes to a simple ssb module package dif (see below). With this
> change
> applied I'm getting:
>
> Collected errors:
>  * satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for
> kmod-b43:
>  *      kmod-ssb *
>  * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package kmod-b43.
>
> Is this possible to make PROVIDES work with kernel module packages?

Our kernel can handle ko's built into the kernel and just create empty
packages, so wouldn't changing the DEPENDS to
@PCI_SUPPORT||TARGET_brcm47xx||TARGET_brcm63xx enough?

If that isn't enough you could also create a
KernelPackage/ssb/brcm47xx (see e.g. crypto-misc, which as a x86
variant, or crypto-sha512 which even has a x86_64 one). With some
oppropriate overrides.


Regards
Jonas