Fwd: Upgrade Kernel using smart PM installs unnecessary modules

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 16 January 2014 15:00:23 Tarek El-Sherbiny wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Paul Eggleton <
> paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > 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
>
> Ok, so I did smart query and the problem is kernel-module package depends
> on all modules. So once a new kernel is available kernel-module pulls in
> all the available modules.
> 
> I need to tell kernel-module package to include only the required modules.

No, this isn't what I meant. I meant what is it that's bringing in the kernel-
modules package itself? The kernel-modules package is intended to depend on 
all modules.

> I guess this is OE issue and I need to ask on the OE list!

I'm not sure, but I suspect so.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre