On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:37 AM, John Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2/25/14, 4:10 PM, Eric Nelson wrote: >> >> Hi John, >> >> On 02/25/2014 02:29 PM, John Weber wrote: >>> >>> I thought I would bounce this one of the mailing list. >>> >>> Is there any reason why we shouldn't simply use the defconfig from the >>> kernel tree if appropriate? >>> >>> We would do this by the defconfig file in the recipe refer to a filename >>> in the kernel tree. For example, in the file >>> recipes-kernel/linux/linux-wandboard-3.10.17/defconfig would be a single >>> line: >>> >>> use-kernel-config=wandboard_defconfig >>> >> >> In general, +1 from our end. >> >> The primary down-side is that the Yocto needs may differ from other >> distributions, but then again, any particular user will likely >> want to tweak a bit anyway. > > Well, I thought all was good with this little trick, but as it turns out > that is not the case. > > I saw this being done within meta-ti kernel recipes and thought it was > pretty nifty, but each recipe includes this file: > > https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-ti/tree/recipes-kernel/linux/setup-defconfig.inc > > So, this is a non-standard feature. It would be nice to know what others > think. > > And, Otavio, I was too quick to be happy regarding our conversation today... > :-)
No problem :-) Personally I don't like to add BSP specific features; I think we can try to come up with a solution for it but we must work at OE-Core basis and than use it here. Having specific features makes harder for users to use the provided documentation ... My 2c... -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 _______________________________________________ meta-freescale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale
