> -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Ashfield [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 9:10 PM > To: Kamble, Nitin A > Cc: [email protected]; Wold, Saul; Zanussi, Tom; > [email protected]; [email protected]; openembedded- > [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] linux-yocto: consolidated pull > > On 12-07-20 11:34 AM, Kamble, Nitin A wrote: > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Bruce Ashfield [mailto:[email protected]] > >> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 8:49 PM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Cc: Wold, Saul; Zanussi, Tom; Kamble, Nitin A; > >> [email protected]; [email protected]; > >> [email protected] > >> Subject: [PATCH 0/3] linux-yocto: consolidated pull > >> > >> Richard/Saul, > >> > >> I've got some -stable updates, -rt updates and other changes that are > >> almost done, but I wanted to get these smaller patches out of my queue > first. > >> > >> We have some cleanup patches from Robert P. J. Day and a meta branch > >> update for EMGD, CONFIG_MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE and kmemcheck. > >> > >> I've gone ahead and pushed the emgd update from Nitin, if it requires > >> re- work, we'll just add more commits to the branch. > >> > >> Tom/Nitin: speak up if there's a problem with this! > >> > > Bruce, > > I notice that in the meta branch you also created patches for commits > from the emgd-1.14 branch such as meta/cfg/kernel- > cache/features/emgd/yocto-emgd-emgd-1.14-driver.patch. So emgd-1.14 > support is available by 2 ways now. 1: By enabling these patches& 2: by > merging the emgd-1.14 branch. For crownbay it is merging the emgd-1.14 > branch, so these patches from meta directory can not be used. > > .. and they aren't supposed to be used, are there any BSPs actively including > the emgd-1.14 feature ? I didn't see any, so I left the patches in the feature > description. If a BSP does a git merge of the branch, it shouldn't include the > feature, since as you mention, that would push the patches again. > > It's just providing options, since merging branches isn't always possible. > > > I don't see any functional issue with this layout, but I am curious why > these patches in meta branch when emgd-1.14 branch can be merged to get > the same effect. > > The kernel-cache should always have the raw patches that you find on the > branches. Some prefer the patches (and don't want to dump the from the > branches) and they document the commits on the branches. > > I for one always use the merge, and prefer the branch only commits, but my > inbox is full from people requesting the raw patches over the years :) >
Bruce, Thanks for the clarification. :) Nitin > Cheers, > > Bruce > > > > > Thanks, > > Nitin > > > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Bruce > >> > >> cc: Nitin A Kamble<[email protected]> > >> cc: Tom Zanussi<[email protected]> > >> cc: Andrea Adami<[email protected]> > >> cc: Robert P. J. Day<[email protected]> > >> > >> The following changes since commit > >> 98a1fd1e734db50380a3a37d35767ccb4cc21f7c: > >> > >> documentation: Config fragment sections updated (2012-07-20 > >> 12:32:54 > >> +0100) > >> > >> are available in the git repository at: > >> git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib zedd/kernel > >> http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=zedd/kernel > >> > >> Bruce Ashfield (1): > >> linux-yocto/3.4: emgd, mtd nand and kmemcheck fixes > >> > >> Robert P. J. Day (2): > >> kernel-yocto.bbclass: Fix some obvious typoes in comments. > >> kernel-yocto.bbclass: Delete superfluous creation of ${S}/.git > >> directory > >> > >> meta/classes/kernel-yocto.bbclass | 8 ++++---- > >> meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-rt_3.4.bb | 2 +- > >> meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.4.bb | 2 +- > >> 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > >> > >> -- > >> 1.7.5.4 > > _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
