Martin, Paul, thanks for your help.
Yes, the recipe does inherit module.
Any other problem that you can think off?

Thanks a lot in advance,
Katu


2013/5/29 Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>

> On Wednesday 29 May 2013 16:39:48 Martin Jansa wrote:
> > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 02:01:11PM +0100, Katu Txakur wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm failing to load a kernel module named spike doing this:
> > > 1) add the recipe (inherit module), based in a Makefile with
> > > modules_install:
> > > $(MAKE) INSTALL_MOD_DIR=kernel/drivers/spike -C $(KERNEL_SRC) M=$(SRC)
> > > modules_install
> > > 2) Add the package to the image with IMAGE_INSTALL += "spike" in the
> > > local.conf file
> > > 3) In the machine/mymachine.conf I've added
> > >
> > >         MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS += "spike"
> > >         module_autoload_spike = "spike"
> > >
> > > The driver gets added to the image and I can load it with insmod spike,
> > > however, I would like to load it at boot time.
> > > A workaround is to create a file with the name spike.conf and write
> spike
> > > inside. Copying that file to /etc/modules-load.d/spike.conf
> > > loads the driver correctly, but I need to do it from a recipe.
> > >
> > > Can anyone spot what am I doing wrong?
> >
> > module_autoload won't work with external module unless you inherit also
> > kernel-module-split
>
> Note that module.bbclass already does this, so if the external module
> recipe
> already does "inherit module" then that is not the problem.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
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>
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre
>