Hi Paul, [[yocto] ifenslave recipe] On 16.06.16 (Thu 13:40) Stath, Paul wrote:
> I'm looking at adding support for NIC bonding into our distribution. > > Along with bonding support in the kernel, I would like to build the > 'ifenslave' > utility program. > > In checking the OpenEmbedded Layer Index, I find recipes-support/ifenslave/ > ifenslave_1.1.0.bb in the meta-networking layer. > > This recipe has a SRC_URI for a version of 'ifenslave.c' > (ifenslace-2.6_1.1.0.org.tar.gz) which I hazard to guess is based on the > ifenslave distributed with the 2.6 kernel sources. > > The documentation for bonding (http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/ > workgroups/networking/bonding) recommends using the 'ifenslave.c' distributed > with the kernel sources. It does indicate that sources from an earlier kernel > should still work, but may not support new functionallity. Actually, ifenslave has been gone from the kernel sources tree for some time now: commit b1098bbe1b24d5d90cff92fbd716d2ef4bed2cff Author: Cong Wang <amw...@redhat.com> Date: Mon May 27 15:49:16 2013 +0000 bonding: remove ifenslave.c from kernel source As Stephen proposed: Since bonding supports configuration via iproute (netlink) and sysfs, I think it is time to purge the old ifenslave code out of Documentation/networking and update the documentation. Suggested-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <fu...@us.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <da...@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amw...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net> so if anything that's probably an argument for us purging the recipe in meta-networking too. > Ideally, I would like to add a .bbappend to the linux-yocto recipe in my layer > that will compile and package the ifenslave program if "CONFIG_BONDING=[m|y]" > is configured for the kernel build. Are you sure you need ifenslave at all? If so, then either you can submit and updated recipe that grabs the last ifenslave.c (~3.10) or I'll see if I can put together a quick update to the recipe. Otherwise it's probably time to put ifenslave out to pasture. -J. > > I'm unsure of the best way to determine if CONFIG_BONDING=[m|y]. Is is as > simple as "grep '^CONFIG_BONDING=[m|y] .config"? > > If bonding is enabled: > > + do_compile_append() to compile ifenslave.c sources from kernel source tree. > + do_install_append() to stage ifenslave executable > + Update the "PACKAGES" variable to add "ifenslave" as a package. > + Add FILES_ifenslave variable to define the contents of the ifenslave > package. > > Please correct the above if I have missed something, made an invalid > assumption, or am barking up the wrong tree. > > -- > Paul Stath > Senior Software Engineer > Axxcelera Broadband Wireless > Richmond, VA 23228 > > > > > > -- -Joe MacDonald. :wq
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
-- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto