[Buildroot] [PATCH] iqvlinux: remove package
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Fri Apr 6 19:39:44 UTC 2018
Hello,
On Wed, 4 Apr 2018 18:00:09 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> This package contains a kernel module from Intel, which could only be
> used together with Intel userspace tools provided under NDA, which
> also come with the same kernel module. The copy of the kernel module
> available on SourceForge is only provided only to comply with the
> GPLv2 requirement. Intel engineers were even surprised it even built
> and were not willing to make any effort to fix their tarball naming to
> contain a version number. Therefore, it does not make sense for
> Buildroot to provide such a package.
>
> See https://sourceforge.net/p/e1000/bugs/589/ for the discussion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
> ---
> Config.in.legacy | 18 ++++++
> DEVELOPERS | 1 -
> package/Config.in | 1 -
> .../0001-Support-Linux-kernel-4.12-and-later.patch | 66 ----------------------
> package/iqvlinux/Config.in | 21 -------
> package/iqvlinux/iqvlinux.hash | 6 --
> package/iqvlinux/iqvlinux.mk | 25 --------
> 7 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 120 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 package/iqvlinux/0001-Support-Linux-kernel-4.12-and-later.patch
> delete mode 100644 package/iqvlinux/Config.in
> delete mode 100644 package/iqvlinux/iqvlinux.hash
> delete mode 100644 package/iqvlinux/iqvlinux.mk
Applied to master after doing the following changes:
[Thomas:
- remove double "only" noticed by Carlos
- fix typo packaged -> package noticed by Romain
- fix check-package warning noticed by Ricardo]
Thanks to everyone who reviewed, and spotted my mistakes!
Best regards,
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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