Hi all, On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 11:25:36AM -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 11:09 AM Steve Sakoman <st...@sakoman.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 2:45 AM Jonas Mark (BT-FIR/ENG1-Grb) > > <mark.jo...@de.bosch.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > We are using DT overlays and have the need to pass the -@ parameter in > > > DTC_FLAGS to Linux' make. The patch > > > > > > "kernel-devicetree: Introduce KERNEL_DTC_FLAGS to pass dtc flags" > > > https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?h=hardknott&id=063b5de86624a42b0aa784db6dddc7552a6dee7f > > > > > > makes that possible in a nice way. Would it be reasonable to request > > > backporting of this patch to Dunfell? > > > > This is sort of in the grey area between feature and bug fix. It does > > seem relatively safe, so I would consider taking the patch if there > > are no objections from the community. > > > > Added Bruce to the cc list to get his opinion. > > Good timing, I happened to notice this earlier and was thinking about it. > > While I also wouldn't call it a bug, I agree it is a small/standalone > change that shouldn't break anything. > > A quick scan of the dunfell tested kernels shows unchanged Makefile > handling of the option, so there's little risk there. > > I'd say that it would be fine for backport. >
Please backport the documentation patch as well if you do backport the feature, see: https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/yocto-docs/commit/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst?id=b2d5bf48fe4e76446a38762839865176294a4a3c Cheers, Quentin
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