On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 13:42 -0500, Koen Kooi wrote: > > Op 28 sep. 2011 om 09:54 heeft Richard Purdie > <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> het volgende geschreven: > > > On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 18:40 -0500, Koen Kooi wrote: > >> > >> Op 27 sep. 2011 om 08:52 heeft Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfi...@gmail.com> > >> het volgende geschreven: > >> > >>> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov > >>> <dbarysh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> MACHINE_KERNEL_PR was introduced long ago in org.oe.dev. It's present in > >>>> meta-oe kernel.bbclass. Several machines depend on this functionality. > >>> > >>> I don' t have a big problem with this, since the change is obviously > >>> harmless if it > >>> doesn't need to be used. But similar to my comment on patch 3/5, is there > >>> any > >>> history/technical reasons we can capture here ? > >>> > >>> I did a quick search to dig up a bit on this myself, but a summary > >>> would definitely > >>> help, since I see that this has a long and sometimes twisting history. Is > >>> it as > >>> simple as ? > >>> > >>> "A machine.conf or local.conf can increase MACHINE_KERNEL_PR to force > >>> rebuilds for kernel and external modules" > >> > >> It is that simple :) > > > > I have reservations about this patch given we soon plan to stop needing > > to bump PR values. This patch is actually a perfect example of how brain > > dead the current manual PR bumping is and why we need something better. > > I don't want half the code in the repo to be a mass of PR values which > > need to be incremented manually under weird and wonderful circumstances > > which is where the direction things are currently going... > > > > I'd like to hold off on this one. > > This patch improves the current situation and I don't foresee the > autoPR code working soon
Which is why we need to switch to that model and shake out the issues sooner than later. Enough is enough with the PR madness and we need to get to grips and fix it. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
