On Mon, 27 Feb 2017, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 4:54 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> > wrote: > > still working my way through the kernel-dev manual, and a > couple oddities in section 2.6. > > first, the example given uses the (alleged) standard/emenlow > branch, which i'm pretty sure doesn't exist anymore, yes? if > one is going to use an example, i suggest one base that > example on one of the YP reference BSPs that's guaranteed to > always exist, such as beagleboard or arm-versatile-926ejs. > > I can't say that one will always exist .. but the arm-versatile > branch has been around for years, and until the qemuarm target > changes to use something else, it will continue to be around.
i might have skipped those possibilities since they produced no output, which made the examples rather vacuous. :-) i'll check again, want to make sure one picks a branch that actually generates output. > next, i'm assuming that one would be running those "git > whatchanged" commands in the project directory, under > tmp/work-shared/<target>/kernel-source, yes? it's just not > made clear in that section where a reader would be doing those > things. > > Correct. ok, i will add that note to the imminent patch. > finally, section 2.6.1 reads: > > "Here is an example that looks at what has changed in the > emenlow branch of the linux-yocto-3.19 kernel." > what does the kernel version of 3.19 have to do with those git > commands? how do those commands depend on the particular > version of the linux-yocto recipe you're using? > > At one point I was changing the branching structure, and the kernel > meta data was in the same repo as the kernel source, so that could > change some of the commands. > > But nothing has changed on that front in quite some time, so the > answer is "they don't depend on the version you are using" .. so the > version reference could be dropped. roger that. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================
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