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Yann E. MORIN committed 5471bac7483
linux: add blind kconfig option to require kernel modules Currently, packages that need the kernel to have support for laodable modules have two ways to require it: - either the use the kernel-module infra, which does it automatically, - or they do not use it, and they need to require it manually by setting the corresponding Makefile variable; however, they must only set it when they are actually enabled, which makes for a slightly cumbersome and ugly code, like: ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_FOO),y) LINUX_NEEDS_MODULES = y endif Introduce a new blind Kconfig option that packages can select to signify they need kernel modules. That Kconfig option is then used to set the Makefile variable. It makes it cleaner: - code is simpler (one Kconfig line instead of a Makefile if-block, - this is handled at the Kconfig level, which is where we usually handle such dependencies. Packages will be updated in follow-up commits. Reported-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>