On 12-02-06 04:43 PM, autif khan wrote:
I could not find a way to patch the kernel source before its is
built.

I promise to update the Yocto wiki's How do I section when I have a
working solution for the following :-)


This should be covered in the existing documentation and also the
more general bitbake/oe-core docs.


Here is what I am trying to do:

1) Patch the kernel (add VID/PID to hid_ignore_list in
drivers/hid/hid-core.c and also to add the VID/PID to .h file)
2) Build the kernel - no change here - standard kernel build
3) Build a kernel module

I have a meta layer where I am keeping my changes. I am guessing that
I need to:

a) write a bbappend file to accomplish #1
b) write a recipe to accomplish #3

I have written recipes before, but just for libraries and autotools
based applications. Not for a kernel module. If there is a recipe out
there for some other module, I would be happy to steal from it.

Please advise how I can go about patching the kernel and if there is
a


It's just like any other package. If your changes are simple, then
generating patches and putting them on the SRC_URI via a bbappend in
your layer is all you need. If you have complex changes, there are
options
to manage them via git or via feature descriptions.


I tried this - attached at the end of this email are my bbappend file
and my patches, when the recipe is bitbaked, it does not actually
apply the patch.

On a similar note - there seems to be a file in
meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto called
tools-perf-no-scripting.patch

However, it does not seem to be used anywhere - is this just crud or I
am missing something? I was hoping to cheat off of the recipe that
uses it.

recipe for a kernel module - please point me to it.


Darren validated and updated the kernel module example, so he'd
probably
got this closer at hand than I do.


See the hello-mod example under meta/recipes-kernel/hello-mod


Thank you for this recipe - it seems like this is exactly what I was
looking for. I will cheat off of this as soon as I can patch my
kernel.


R E C I P E

autif@fpbm:~/data/yocto/poky-edison-6.0/meta-koko/recipes/linux$ cat
linux-yocto_3.0.bbappend
FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}:"
SRC_URI += " file://linux/drivers/hid/hid-core.c.diff \
             file://linux/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h.diff "
PR = "r3"
autif@fpbm:~/data/yocto/poky-edison-6.0/meta-koko/recipes/linux$

P A T C H


autif@fpbm:~/data/yocto/poky-edison-6.0/meta-koko/recipes/linux/linux/drivers/hid$


Taking a look at this (while I was cutting and pasting), this should
be in in the
a 'linux-yocto' subdirectory if you want bitbake to pickup the patch and
make it
available to the linux-yocto recipe.

i.e.
~/data/yocto/poky-edison-6.0/meta-koko/recipes/linux/linux-yocto/drivers/hid

And don't use 'linux-yocto' in your file:// reference on the SRC_URI,
that part is
automatic.


I tried this just now - here is what happens:

Case - patch is in linux/linux-yocto/drivers/hid, SRC_URI ref is
file://drivers/hid/file.diff
Result: Fetcher failure for URL: 'file://drivers/hid/hid-core.c.diff


If you get a fetcher failire, you have it in the wrong place.

Note: this has nothing to do with the kernel and is a general
bitbake/oe-core question.



Case - patch is in linux/linux-yocto/drivers/hid, SRC_URI ref is
file://linux-yocto/drivers/hid/file.diff


Interesting. I've never had to specify linux-yocto in my SRC_URIs,
so something strange it going on here.

Does anyone else have ideas here ?



Result - my diff files are copied in a directory called linux-yocto in

tmp/work/crownbay-poky-linux/linux-yocto-3.0.4+git1+d05450e4aef02c1b7137398ab3a9f8f96da74f52_1+2247da9131ea7e46ed4766a69bb1353dba22f873-r3

These patches are not applied in

tmp/work/crownbay-poky-linux/linux-yocto-3.0.4+git1+d05450e4aef02c1b7137398ab3a9f8f96da74f52_1+2247da9131ea7e46ed4766a69bb1353dba22f873-r3/linux

Here is what the work directory looks like


autif@fpbm:~/ssd/minimal/tmp/work/crownbay-poky-linux/linux-yocto-3.0.4+git1+d05450e4aef02c1b7137398ab3a9f8f96da74f52_1+2247da9131ea7e46ed4766a69bb1353dba22f873-r3$
ls
git  license-destdir  linux  linux-crownbay-standard-build  linux-yocto
  temp

autif@fpbm:~/ssd/minimal/tmp/work/crownbay-poky-linux/linux-yocto-3.0.4+git1+d05450e4aef02c1b7137398ab3a9f8f96da74f52_1+2247da9131ea7e46ed4766a69bb1353dba22f873-r3$


I have attached the original set of files as a tar gzip.


I'll take them for a spin.



(and yes, I see 'edison' was the branch now)


Yes, I am using Yocto 1.0 - very soon I will migrate to M2 - pending
tasks at hand :-)


I'll have to dig up a 1.0 tree, since I don't have anything of that
vintage available to me.

But I know that patched worked then, and am absolutely sure that it
works in 1.1 and master.

OK, I switched to M2 release and now, I have a different error:

Case - diff files are in recipes/linux/linux-yocto, SRC_URI is
file://drivers/hid/hid-core.c.diff
Result - ERROR: Function 'Fetcher failure for URL:
'file://drivers/hid/hid-core.c.diff'. Unable to fetch URL
file://drivers/hid/hid-core.c.diff from any source.' failed


Did, I misunderstood you when you said that I should rename the files
dir to linux-yocto - the name of the recipe and remove it from the
SRC_URI?

Every build that I do with my meta-kernel-dev has some out of tree
patches. It's a form of continual regression testing that I do out
of habit.

My bbappend looks like this:

SRC_URI = "git://${KSRC_linux_yocto};protocol=file;nocheckout=1;branch=${KBRANCH},meta;name=machine,meta \
           file://make.patch \
           file://subdir/make2.patch \
           file://subdir/make3.patch"


> pwd
/home/bruce/yocto/poky-extras/meta-kernel-dev/recipes-kernel/linux
> tree linux-yocto
linux-yocto
├── make.patch
└── subdir
    ├── make2.patch
    └── make3.patch

These are always applied to my build.

Cheers,

Bruce



Will keep investigating and experimenting.

Cheers,

Bruce



Cheers,

Bruce

cat hid-core.c.diff
--- linux.orig/drivers/hid/hid-core.c   2012-01-31 16:44:44.152001877
-0500
+++ linux/drivers/hid/hid-core.c        2012-01-31 16:46:34.608001870
-0500
@@ -1839,6 +1839,8 @@
        { HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_WISEGROUP,
USB_DEVICE_ID_1_PHIDGETSERVO_20) },
        { HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_WISEGROUP,
USB_DEVICE_ID_8_8_4_IF_KIT) },
        { HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_YEALINK,
USB_DEVICE_ID_YEALINK_P1K_P4K_B2K) },
+       { HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_PIXCIR, USB_DEVICE_ID_PIXCIR) },
        { }
  };

autif@fpbm:~/data/yocto/poky-edison-6.0/meta-koko/recipes/linux/linux/drivers/hid$

autif@fpbm:~/data/yocto/poky-edison-6.0/meta-koko/recipes/linux/linux/drivers/hid$
cat hid-ids.h.diff--- linux.orig/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h  2012-01-31
16:44:55.432001877 -0500
+++ linux/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h 2012-01-31 16:47:36.624001858 -0500
@@ -671,4 +671,7 @@
  #define USB_VENDOR_ID_ZYDACRON 0x13EC
  #define USB_DEVICE_ID_ZYDACRON_REMOTE_CONTROL  0x0006

+#define USB_VENDOR_ID_PIXCIR   0x040b
+#define USB_DEVICE_ID_PIXCIR   0x2000
+
  #endif

autif@fpbm:~/data/yocto/poky-edison-6.0/meta-koko/recipes/linux/linux/drivers/hid$
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