On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Paul Barker <p...@paulbarker.me.uk> wrote: > On 24 June 2013 17:19, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfi...@windriver.com> wrote: >> On 13-06-24 11:59 AM, Hans Beckérus wrote: >>> >>> Hi. We are using a 3.6 based kernel in our builds using a custom >>> kernel recipe. However, I can see that the linux-libc-headers built >>> but based on a 3.8 kernel? >>> Is this really how it should be? Are we supposed to also make a custom >>> recipe for the linux-libc-headers? The image seems to be executing >>> fine but I am a bit worried about the version mismatch :( >> >> Summary: you can match them if you want, but we are testing across >> several kernel versions and haven't found any issues (yet). >> > > Just to point out - this is pretty common across linux distros as > well, otherwise all your software would have to be re-built every time > you updated the kernel. > > -- > Paul Barker > > Email: p...@paulbarker.me.uk > http://www.paulbarker.me.uk
Thanks Paul (and Bruce of course). I now realize that this would break most systems after a major kernel upgrade ;) >From what I know/experienced so far is that the only thing that usually breaks with a new major kernel version is our own kernel drivers... Hans On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Paul Barker <p...@paulbarker.me.uk> wrote: > On 24 June 2013 17:19, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfi...@windriver.com> wrote: >> On 13-06-24 11:59 AM, Hans Beckérus wrote: >>> >>> Hi. We are using a 3.6 based kernel in our builds using a custom >>> kernel recipe. However, I can see that the linux-libc-headers built >>> but based on a 3.8 kernel? >>> Is this really how it should be? Are we supposed to also make a custom >>> recipe for the linux-libc-headers? The image seems to be executing >>> fine but I am a bit worried about the version mismatch :( >> >> Summary: you can match them if you want, but we are testing across >> several kernel versions and haven't found any issues (yet). >> > > Just to point out - this is pretty common across linux distros as > well, otherwise all your software would have to be re-built every time > you updated the kernel. > > -- > Paul Barker > > Email: p...@paulbarker.me.uk > http://www.paulbarker.me.uk _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto