[Gumstix-users] Noob Kernel Question

[Casey St <cas...@gm...>]

Hey Everyone,

I am new to the OE environment and to kernel rebuilding as well. I am
working on adding video drivers for the two types of webcam that I have
access to. I have read the directions found here
http://wiki.gumstix.org/index.php?title=Webcam_drivers_on_Open_Embedded_Part_1_-_pwc_driver_webcams
and
http://wiki.gumstix.org/index.php?title=Webcam_drivers_-_Mini_Howto_Part_2_-_Linux_uvc_cameras
and have figured out which drivers I need and how to reconfigure a kernel.
After I ran the following commands bitbake gumstix-kernel -c reconfigure and
bitbake -c clean gumstix-kernel;bitbake gumstix-kernel I am able to rebuild
the kernel. The problem is I am getting the regular uimage kernel  bin file
and a bunch the extra modules not found in my file system image in a
modules-2.6.31-r0-gumstix-verdex.tgz file. I thought about manual
transferring the modules into my file system but I am do not know how to
untar files into a directory without overwriting the whole directory.
Secondly I am not sure if that is the proper Linux way adding modules.
 
I also found this link
http://old.nabble.com/Kernel-modules-upload-td22883966.html#a30283820 in
which the author had a similar problem. He was abe to resolve his problem by
adding his additional module to the task-base-gumstix.bb. My question is if
I wanted to use this method how would I get the module name and determine
where to put them in the task-base-gumstix.bb. Also there are a lot of
modules in my modules-2.6.31-r0-gumstix-verdex.tgz file would I need to need
to add of them, similarly I needed I wanted to delete a couple modules I
don't need and was wondering how I would indicate that in the bb file.
Lastly if I set up task-base-gumstix.bb properly how would I know it worked,
would it be installed in the file system image or would I have an ipk
package I could install? Sorry for the long email but i wanted to provide
all the information that I had.

Casey 
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