Hello Koen,

Saturday, July 8, 2006, 5:50:21 PM, you wrote:

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> Michael 'Mickey' Lauer schreef:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> this just came in via familiar list. I'd appreciate if anyone could go
>> over the patch and apply individually if the stuff makes sense. It's a
>> bit sad that [email protected] wasn't at least on cc:, but oh well
>> *shrug*.

> If you had actually read the patch you wouldn't have suggested that,
> what an ugly mess to work around bugs in the familiar tree.
> I've extracted the sensical portions, cleaned them up *a lot* and
> committed them.

  Thanks Koen ;-) . Except it's likely won't work as h4000's defconfig
doesn't seem to be checked in. Also, it *doesn't* work (though will as
time passes), because it really requires kernel after some CVS date.
No matter if that date will be added to h4000.conf, I'd really
appreciate if following patch was applied to handhelds-pxa-2.6_cvs.bb:

-K_MAJOR = "2"
-K_MINOR = "6"
-K_MICRO = "15"
-HHV     = "0"
+K_MAJOR ?= "2"
+K_MINOR ?= "6"
+K_MICRO ?= "15"
+HHV     ?= "0"

  Of course, ideally it should be given just CVS date and be able to
infer corresponding kernel version from the checkout, but I'm not sure
it can be done with OE, as there's going to be circular dependency -
it must provide PV to be selected for specific build, and cannot (and
of course shouldn't) do any actions (like checkout) unless it is
selected.


  I bet many OE developers emphisize OE's use for building
distributions. But there's another important usecase for it - letting
new people experiment with it and add support for new stuff. Having
such patches in place (as well as .conf's which actually used them,
even if commit history) would be very helpful for them (it took me
couple of hours to come to understanding that I don't need to craft
yet another handhelds-pxa-2.6_2.6.X-hhY.bb just for my specific case,
and I can just reuse existing stuff, just fixing it a little).


> Koen


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