On 03/01/2012 03:01 PM, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On 03/01/2012 02:45 PM, Darren Hart wrote: >> On 03/01/2012 02:26 PM, Hollis Blanchard wrote: >>> The g_ether kernel module, in the kernel-module-g-ether package, allows >>> targets to use a USB connection as a network interface. However, that's >>> not useful until the module is loaded. >>> >>> The usbinit package provides the /etc/init.d/usb-gether script to load >>> the g_ether module at boot, so it should be included along with >>> kernel-module-g-ether. >> So if the g-ether kernel module is built-in to the kernel, the >> kernel-module-g-ether will not be installed (as it's RRECOMMENDS). The >> usbinit package still will be (unless for some reason it can't be built >> for the target). >> >> I assume this doesn't pose a problem? > > Well, hmm, I don't know. The usb-gether script is not very intelligent, > so I suppose that would result in yet another boot time error message. > Perhaps testing the result of 'modinfo g_ether' in the script would be a > good follow-up patch? >
Sounds reasonable to me. -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto Project - Linux Kernel _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
