ref-manual: Added module and module-base classes.

(From yocto-docs rev: d815e0fd2f49c5269432427f08b88657c4e50104)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
index 1dad284762..aae306224f 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
@@ -1546,7 +1546,6 @@
         Various other classes are used by the <filename>kernel</filename>
         and <filename>module</filename> classes internally including the
         <link linkend='ref-classes-kernel-arch'><filename>kernel-arch</filename></link>,
-        <link linkend='ref-classes-module_strip'><filename>module_strip</filename></link>,
         <link linkend='ref-classes-module-base'><filename>module-base</filename></link>,
         and
         <link linkend='ref-classes-linux-kernel-base'><filename>linux-kernel-base</filename></link>
@@ -1698,6 +1697,43 @@
     </para>
 </section>
 
+<section id='ref-classes-module'>
+    <title><filename>module.bbclass</filename></title>
+
+    <para>
+        The <filename>module</filename> class provides support for building
+        out-of-tree Linux kernel modules.
+        The class inherits the
+        <link linkend='ref-classes-module-base'><filename>module-base</filename></link>
+        and
+        <link linkend='ref-classes-kernel-module-split'><filename>kernel-module-split</filename></link>
+        classes, and implements <filename>do_compile</filename> and
+        <filename>do_install</filename> functions.
+        The class provides everything needed to build and package a kernel
+        module.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+        For general information on out-of-tree Linux kernel modules, see the
+        "<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_KERNEL_URL;#incorporating-out-of-tree-modules'>Incorporating Out-of-Tree Modules</ulink>"
+        section in the Yocto Project Linux Kernel Development Manual.
+    </para>
+</section>
+
+<section id='ref-classes-module-base'>
+    <title><filename>module-base.bbclass</filename></title>
+
+    <para>
+        The <filename>module-base</filename> class provides the base
+        functionality for building Linux kernel modules.
+        Typically, a recipe that builds software that includes one or
+        more kernel modules and has its own means of building
+        the module inherits this class as opposed to inheriting the
+        <link linkend='ref-classes-module'><filename>module</filename></link>
+        class.
+    </para>
+</section>
+
 <section id='ref-classes-multilib*'>
     <title><filename>multilib*.bbclass</filename></title>