On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 at 18:52, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 12:37 PM Fathi Boudra <fathi.bou...@linaro.org> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 at 18:19, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfi...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 12:16 PM Fathi Boudra <fathi.bou...@linaro.org> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 at 18:10, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfi...@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Unfortunately, no. I've already rejected similar patches in the past. > > > > > > > > > > The specific versioning is intentional and is going to stay. It tracks > > > > > what is supported and tested in a given branch. > > > > > > > > > > If someone needs to deviate from what I'm marking as tested, they can > > > > > carry a file in their layers. > > > > > > > > That's unfortunate. Let's all carry a workaround for this one-liner > > > > that hasn't changed in 4 years. > > > > > > > > > > I'm not sure what you are implying, but I am constantly changing the > > > versioned linux-yocto .inc file to match the upstream file. > > > > > > Which is exactly the point of that file, not the contents within the > > > file. > > > > Let's be clear, as you mentioned, you've rejected similar patches in the > > past. > > There's real users affected by this strict versioning and causing > > unnecessary breakage. > > And let's be clear that I'm not going to trade off a few users > carrying a small tweak to their local configs / layers if they > want to support a different set of versions than I'm testing, > with even a single user thinking that the support is extended > to anything more than the versions in oe-core. It has to be > enforced through the layer, not documentation or what people > think they know.
You have no clue about how many users are affected. > > Hence, I'm assuming that other users are or have been impacted and > > carry a workaround. > > Relaxing the versioned include doesn't change what you've been > > testing, as it's pretty > > clear it is whatever is supported by oe-core. It's unfortunate because the > > linux-%.bbappend is relaxed. > > git contains all the history, it was a compromise from the start to > allow other kernels of the same version, that don't happen to be > linux-yocto to work. We went through quite a few iterations to get > it to work, and I often do wish we had just kept the matching more > strict. Sorry, I don't see any compromises in the git history.
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