-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05-04-11 11:08, Andreas Oberritter wrote: > On 04/05/2011 08:22 AM, Koen Kooi wrote: >> On 04-04-11 20:12, Andreas Oberritter wrote: >>> On 04/04/2011 07:54 PM, Koen Kooi wrote: >>>> On 04-04-11 17:14, Andreas Oberritter wrote: >>>>> On 04/04/2011 03:58 PM, Koen Kooi wrote: >>>>>> On 04-04-11 15:00, Andreas Oberritter wrote: >>>>>>> Ping. Any votes for or against this patch with either appended or >>>>>>> prepended PR? >>>>>> >>>>>> I don't like this patch *at all*. Recipes can already do >>>>>> MACHINE_KERNEL_PR_append = "something" if they need to. >>>> >>>>> The use of MACHINE_KERNEL_PR is optional, so it feels really wrong to >>>>> append something to it in a recipe. >>>> >>>>>> Can you should me a specific example on how this would be an improvement? >>>> >>>>> With the version below. a distro can start to use MACHINE_KERNEL_PR any >>>>> time without breaking updates. >>>> >>>>> The vast majority of modules do not use MACHINE_KERNEL_PR >>>> >>>> It seems you don't understand how MACHINE_KERNEL_PR works. The *machine* >>>> sets it. The distro has *no* say in it. Therefore the module recipes >>>> don't need to set it, since it's automatic. >> >>> That's nitpicking. Let me rephrase: >> >>> With the previously cited version. a *machine* can start to use >>> MACHINE_KERNEL_PR any time without breaking updates. >> >>> The vast majority of module recipes do not use MACHINE_KERNEL_PR. That >>> means that they use their own PR instead of appending something to >>> MACHINE_KERNEL_PR, as suggested by you. Setting MACHINE_KERNEL_PR in the >>> machine's configuration disables automatic rebuilds of 91% of module >>> recipes. >> >> So make all the module recipes use MACHINE_KERNEL_PR and ditch PR. > > Thereby making MACHINE_KERNEL_PR mandatory for all machines?
I don't see why not. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFNmt99MkyGM64RGpERAsEeAKCFdLTfAEdS0jQsE3roLugG2yvTtQCbBXx7 z2FSA/yy6GVHr8+pASP14e4= =mJV7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel