[LEDE-DEV] Using PROVIDES with kmod packages

[Rafał Miłecki]

On 17 February 2017 at 15:14, Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

I don't want to build ssb into the kernel. I want to add kmod-ssb
package with per device rootfs feature.


> 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.

This also doesn't help me. I need two variants of b43 package, not one
modified. It's because most mips74k devices can work with b43 with
bcma only. There are only about 2 devices than need modified b43
package with ssb support enabled.
In other words I need exactly something like PROVIDES ;)

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Rafał