On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Paul Eggleton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday 19 February 2015 11:47:01 Bruce Ashfield wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Paul Eggleton >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I've been attempting to enable usage of devtool with the kernel (which >> > effectively means using the externalsrc class with the kernel). This >> > doesn't really work yet due to lack of handling the kernel configuration, >> >> I've always insisted/argued and designed in that externalsrc shouldn't touch >> the kernel configuration at all. >> >> You are building a tree that is completely managed outside of the build >> system, and getting the kernel configuration in place is part of that >> management. >> >> So I'm not convinced it is a problem that needs to be solved. > > So, externalsrc still doesn't touch the configuration, and it is not my plan > to > make it do so. However, users do need some way of setting up that > configuration > when checking out those sources for the first time, and if that's to be of any
Right. Something to think on. > use to someone who just wants to make some minor changes, it should be the > exact same configuration you get when you build the recipe as normal. That is > what I believe "devtool modify" (at least with -x) should be doing, given that > it is one means you can use to set up a development environment if you do not > have one already. > > We can certainly talk about the mechanism and work out the best way to do it, > such that it fits in with how linux-yocto works and meets user expectations. > My > intent with this series was to get us to the point where we can at least > experiment and have that discussion. Agreed. Bruce > > Cheers, > Paul > > -- > > Paul Eggleton > Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at its end" -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
