Fwd: Upgrade Kernel using smart PM installs unnecessary modules

Paul Eggleton paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Thu Jan 16 05:37:18 PST 2014


Hi Tarek,

On Thursday 16 January 2014 13:24:32 Tarek El-Sherbiny wrote:
> When smart detect a Kernel upgrade *"smart upgrade" command *it installs
> not only the kernel and installed modules but also any kernel module that
> is available in the feed.
> Before running the command I had 6 modules installed but now it's
> installing over 300 modules.Most of these modules are not relevant and not
> installed on my system.
> 
> How do I tell smart to check and upgrade only  for the currently installed
> kernel modules?
> 
> I'm running OE Yocoto build on i.MX6 platform using rpm packages.

Did you use smart to query for dependencies on the "kernel-modules" package as 
I suggested in my reply to your original message?

https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2014-January/017770.html

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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