On 12.07.19 13:43, Johannes Kirchmair wrote: >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> >> Gesendet: Freitag, 12. Juli 2019 12:23 >> An: Johannes Kirchmair <johannes.kirchm...@sigmatek.at>; >> xenomai@xenomai.org >> Betreff: Re: [PATCH] prepare-kernal.sh: Add --copylinks option >> >> On 12.07.19 09:41, Johannes Kirchmair via Xenomai wrote: >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> just a ping to see if anyone has any remarks about this patch. >> >> Sorry, slipped through. >> >>> >>> Best regards >>> Johannes Kirchmair >>> >>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >>> Von: Johannes Kirchmair <johannes.kirchm...@sigmatek.at> >>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. Juni 2019 13:01 >>> An: xenomai@xenomai.org >>> Cc: Johannes Kirchmair <johannes.kirchm...@sigmatek.at> >>> Betreff: [PATCH] prepare-kernal.sh: Add --copylinks option >>> >>> The prepare-kernal.sh script by default adds the xenomai kernel >> components to the kernel source using soft links. >>> If you move/remove the xenomai source or move the patched kernel >> source to another workstation, you must change all this links or even replace >> them by the actual files. >>> To simplify the deployment of the patched kernel source to our coworkers, >> we added the –copylinks option to the prepare-kernal.sh. >>> The option causes the prepare-kernal.sh to copy the xenomai kernel >> components instead of linking them. >>> This makes it easy to move the patched kernel source to different >> locations. >>> Further, having the actual files in the kernel source makes the use of tools >> like git grep that do not follow symbolic links by default more convenient. >>> E.g. it gets harder to miss symbols searched with git grep by accident. >> >> What's the differentiation to using --outpatch > > Actually missed that one or did not get it the right way. > Appling the --outpatch file actually does what we were trying to achieve. > So we can drop this thread. > Sorry for the disturbance. ;-)
No problem! If you feel like that feature is not optimally documented: We are also taking doc patches. ;) Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RDA IOT SES-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
