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On Jul 6, 2012, at 5:06 PM, "Rifenbark, Scott M" <scott.m.rifenb...@intel.com> 
wrote:

> Jim,
>  
> I am looking at that section in the BSP Guide and it is actually out of date 
> regarding the 1.2.10 section.  In the section it lists the 
> linux-yocto_3.0.bbappend file (which is probably lagging as it should be 
> 3.2).  Anyway, the listing uses KERNEL_FEATURES and I believe that KBRANCH is 
> now used.  I am going to work on this section and get it up to speed and then 
> address the issue you originally brought up, which is getting the best 
> description for config fragments inside the dev manual.
>  
> ScottR
>  
> From: yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org] 
> On Behalf Of jfabernathy
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 11:59 AM
> To: yocto@yoctoproject.org
> Subject: [yocto] Documentation improvement
>  
> I was looking at the Yocto Development Manual (Latest), section 4.6.2. 
> Creating Config Fragments.  I was confused about the file statement and the 
> naming of the directory to locate the fragment file until I found a similar 
> discussion in the BSP Guide (lastest) section 1.2.10. Linux Kernel 
> Configuration. 
> 
> The section there is much more understandable.  I think we need to modify the 
> development manual or have it point to the BSP manual.  The text from there 
> (below) I think is better.  I still think it's confusing about the naming of 
> the subdirectory where the myconfig goes. Maybe a complete example would be 
> good.
> 
> For example, suppose you had a set of configuration options in a file called 
> myconfig. If you put that file inside a directory named linux-yocto and then 
> added a SRC_URI statement such as the following to the append file, those 
> configuration options will be picked up and applied when the kernel is built.
>      SRC_URI += "file://myconfig"
>                 
> As mentioned earlier, you can group related configurations into multiple 
> files and name them all in the SRC_URI statement as well. For example, you 
> could group separate configurations specifically for Ethernet and graphics 
> into their own files and add those by using a SRC_URI statement like the 
> following in your append file:
> 
>      SRC_URI += "file://myconfig \
>             file://eth.cfg \
>             file://gfx.cfg"
>                 
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