Hello,

2015-01-27 8:31 GMT+01:00 Markus Niebel <list-09_ptxdist@tqsc.de>:

> Hello,
> Am 26.01.2015 um 20:16 schrieb Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I wrote a custom driver for my BSP, and I initially made it an
> out-of-tree
> > driver (ptxdist newpackage src-linux-driver and so on)
> >
> > This driver needs to export a header file (defining some ioctl values)
> for
> > use by other (custom) ptxdist packages. I am currently exporting this
> > header file in the "install" stage of the out-of-tree driver:
> >
> > cp $(MY_DRIVER_DIR)/someheader.h $(PTXDIST_SYSROOT_TARGET)/usr/include
> >
> > So far so good.
> >
> > Now I would like to transform this out-of-tree driver into an in-tree
> > driver and for that I am generating a set of patches against the kernel
> > tree. My question is: How can I export the custom header in this case? I
> > assume that modifying the generic kernel.make is not the way to go.
> >
> > Any hints?
> >
> split the internal from the external part and place the header to export
> under
> <kernel>/include/uapi/<correct subdir>
> modify the Kbuild script in this subdir to add your header to the headers
> to export
> Generate patch series for your kernel and use this kernel version for the
> kernel header package in ptxdist
>

Thank you, I think this is exactly what I needed!

Best,

Guillermo