[Buildroot] [PATCH 02/11] docs/manual: add kernel-module

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 06/08/15 23:46, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> On 06/07/15 00:20, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
>> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
>> Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49 at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  docs/manual/adding-packages-kernel-module.txt | 120 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  docs/manual/adding-packages.txt               |   2 +
>>  2 files changed, 122 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 docs/manual/adding-packages-kernel-module.txt
>>
>> diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-kernel-module.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-kernel-module.txt
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..1fe359a
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-kernel-module.txt
>> @@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
>> +// -*- mode:doc; -*-
>> +// vim: set syntax=asciidoc:
>> +
>> +=== Infrastructure for packages building kernel modules
>> +
>> +Some packages, in addition to the usual user-space components it builds,
>> +may also need to build and install kernel modules.
> 
>  How about:
> 
> Buildroot offers a helper infrastructure to make it easy to write packages that
> build and install Linux kernel modules. Some packages only contain a kernel
> module, other packages contain programs and libraries in addition to kernel
> modules. Buildroot's helper infrastructure supports either case.
> 
>> +
>> +Buildroot offers a helper infrastructure to ease writing such packages.
>> +
>> +[[kernel-module-tutorial]]
>> +==== +kernel-module+ tutorial
>> +
>> +Let's start with an example on how to prepare a simple package that only
>> +builds a kernel module, and no other component:
>> +
>> +----
>> +01: ################################################################################
>> +02: #
>> +03: # foo
>> +04: #
>> +05: ################################################################################
>> +06: 
>> +07: FOO_VERSION = 1.2.3
>> +08: FOO_SOURCE = foo-$(FOO_VERSION).tar.xz
>> +09: FOO_SITE = http://www.foosoftware.org/download

 One more thing: we want to encourage adding license info, so perhaps include in
the example:

FOO_LICENSE = GPLv2
FOO_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING


 Regards,
 Arnout

>> +10: 
>> +11: $(eval $(kernel-module))
>> +12: $(eval $(generic-package))
>> +----
>> +
[snip]


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