include usbinit package with usbgadget feature

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.

Tested with core-image-base on beagleboard.

Signed-off-by Hollis Blanchard <[email protected]>

---

meta/recipes-core/tasks/task-base.bb +3 -2

index 2032432..fda0384 100644
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Merge machine and distro options to create a basic machine task/p
  LICENSE = "MIT"
  LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/LICENSE;md5=3f40d7994397109285ec7b81fdeb3b58 \
                      file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
-PR = "r73"
+PR = "r74"
 
  inherit task
 

@@ -248,7 +248,8 @@ RRECOMMENDS_task-base-usbgadget = "\
      kernel-module-gadgetfs \
      kernel-module-g-file-storage \
      kernel-module-g-serial \
-    kernel-module-g-ether"
+    kernel-module-g-ether \
+    usbinit"
 
  RDEPENDS_task-base-usbhost = "\
      usbutils "

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Quoted 7 lines · Hollis Blanchard

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?

Quoted 13 lines · Darren Hart

Quoted 7 lines · Hollis Blanchard

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).

Quoted 1 line

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?

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.

Tested with core-image-base on beagleboard.

Signed-off-by Hollis Blanchard <[email protected]>

---

meta/recipes-core/tasks/task-base.bb +0 -0

index 2032432..fda0384 100644
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Merge machine and distro options to 

create a basic machine task/p
LICENSE = "MIT"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM =
"file://${COREBASE}/LICENSE;md5=3f40d7994397109285ec7b81fdeb3b58 \

file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"

meta/recipes-core/tasks/task-base.bb +1 -1

-PR = "r73"
+PR = "r74"
 
 inherit task