kernel.bbclass: enable a link for external module building

Even though the kernel-dev package provides the required support for
building external kernel modules on the target, some commonly used scripts
and utilities fail as they are not finding the kernel module build support
files at the desired location.

Create the /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/build link on target pointing to
the sources provided by the kernel-dev package, to fix the issue.

Fixes Bug:
[YOCTO #2968]

Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
index 0782923fcb33975c39500baf49b967dc60a2f81b..f300fa3eb69a34c256f996667317aadda0133737 100644 (file)
--- a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ kernel_do_install() {
        #
        kerneldir=${D}${KERNEL_SRC_PATH}
        install -d $kerneldir
+       ln -sf ${KERNEL_SRC_PATH} "${D}/lib/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}/build"
 
        #
        # Store the kernel version in sysroots for module-base.bbclass
@@ -346,7 +347,7 @@ PACKAGES = "kernel kernel-base kernel-vmlinux kernel-image kernel-dev kernel-mod
 FILES_${PN} = ""
 FILES_kernel-base = "/lib/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}/modules.order /lib/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}/modules.builtin"
 FILES_kernel-image = "/boot/${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}*"
-FILES_kernel-dev = "/boot/System.map* /boot/Module.symvers* /boot/config* ${KERNEL_SRC_PATH}"
+FILES_kernel-dev = "/boot/System.map* /boot/Module.symvers* /boot/config* ${KERNEL_SRC_PATH} /lib/modules/${KERNEL_VERSION}/build"
 FILES_kernel-vmlinux = "/boot/vmlinux*"
 FILES_kernel-modules = ""
 RDEPENDS_kernel = "kernel-base"