[poky] external kernel module does not recognize a new git commit

[Lars Larsen]

SOLVED

It was caused by  my inexperience with bitbake, and half baked attempts 
to setup for offline builds

BB_FETCH_PREMIRRORONLY was set to 1.

sorry for the disturbance.

-Lars


On 2017-05-31 13:32, Lars Larsen wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> For my image I have a  recipe where I build an external kernel module 
> (a driver).
>
> I followed the model in the hello_mod.bb <http://hello_mod.bb> 
> example, except that the SRC_URI is a git repository and SRCREV= 
> "${AUTOREV} (/See the recipe below.)/
>
> in my image recipe I do :
> PACKAGE_INSTALL_append() = "kernel-module-camdriverV20"
>
> If I make changes and push a new version to the git repo , it is not 
> discovered by bitbake, it keeps building the older version it already 
> have checked out.
>
>
> ///
> //SUMMARY = "CAMERA DRIVER for Robovator"//
> //LICENSE = "GPLv2"//
> //LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = 
> "file://COPYING;md5=12f884d2ae1ff87c09e5b7ccc2c4ca7e"//
> //
> //# Cameradriver for Robovator, based on camdriverV10//
> //
> //#INHIBIT_PACKAGE_DEBUG_SPLIT = "1"//
> //BRANCH = "Pokybuild"//
> //
> //inherit module//
> //
> //SRC_URI =" git:///${ESERVER}/GIT/camdriverV20/;branch=${BRANCH};"//
> //
> //SRCREV= "${AUTOREV}"//
> //PV = "1.0.0+gitr${SRCPV}"//
> //
> //#SRCREV = "aa47aca8424a3f65ea2fc50386c2d1cdc47120d2"//
> //#PV = "1.0.0+gitr${SRCPV}"//
> ////
> //S = "${WORKDIR}/git"//
> //
> //# Do not autoload the driver when running "V1.9" mode//
> //#KERNEL_MODULE_AUTOLOAD += "camdriverV20"/
>
> /
> /
>
> ESERVER and BRANCH are externally defined an are correct.
>
> All my application level module recipes are made the same way and they 
> work fine
>
> I must have  something wrong with the driver module. but what?
>
>
> B.R Lars
>
>
> -- 
>
> Best Regards
> Lars Larsen
>
> F.Poulsen Engineering Aps
> Tjørnager 16
> 4330 Hvalsø
> Denmark
> +45 29802784
> www.visionweeding.com
>
>
>

-- 

Best Regards
Lars Larsen

F.Poulsen Engineering Aps
Tjørnager 16
4330 Hvalsø
Denmark
+45 29802784
www.visionweeding.com

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