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ref-manual: document KERNEL_SPLIT_MODULES variable

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This variable controls the kernel module spliting.

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the :term:`KERNEL_PATH` variable. Both variables are common variables
used by external Makefiles to point to the kernel source directory.
:term:`KERNEL_SPLIT_MODULES`
When inheriting the :ref:`ref-classes-kernel-module-split` class, this
variable controls whether kernel modules are split into separate packages
or bundled into a single package.
For some use cases, a monolithic kernel module package
:term:`KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME` that contains all modules built from the
kernel sources may be preferred to speed up the installation.
By default, this variable is set to ``1``, resulting in one package per
module. Setting it to any other value will generate a single monolithic
package containing all kernel modules.
.. note::
If :term:`KERNEL_SPLIT_MODULES` is set to 0, it is still possible to
install all kernel modules at once by adding ``kernel-modules`` (assuming
:term:`KERNEL_PACKAGE_NAME` is ``kernel-modules``) to :term:`IMAGE_INSTALL`.
The way it works is that a placeholder "kernel-modules" package will be
created and will depend on every other individual kernel module packages.
:term:`KERNEL_SRC`
The location of the kernel sources. This variable is set to the value
of the :term:`STAGING_KERNEL_DIR` within the :ref:`ref-classes-module`