[linux-yocto] kernel-yocto integration into freescale kernel

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 2016-05-13 7:52 PM, Jate Sujjavanich wrote:
> One of the patches had a single word subject line that was very common
> in the kernel repository's commit logs, so the script decided it was the
> first one in the series towards the end. After I made it less general,
> the script fell through to just applying all of the patches.

Thanks for the update. Glad to hear it is working.

Bruce

>
> Thanks
>
> Jate
>
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:05 PM, Bruce Ashfield
> <bruce.ashfield at windriver.com <mailto:bruce.ashfield at windriver.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 2016-05-12 7:23 PM, Jate Sujjavanich wrote:
>
>         I am attempting to incorporate kernel-yocto.bbclass into my
>         Freescale
>         kernel. I had to make some changes in the early tasks, but I got
>         configuration fragments working (which was my main goal).
>
>         My kernel recipe's patches stopped working, however. They
>         followed the
>         more conventional base.bbclass patching logic. The script
>         kgit-s2q skips
>         over several of my patches with the autoresume logic.
>
>         Do you have suggestions on what to try? I do have to tell you
>         that I'm
>         on dora.
>
>
>     Hmmm. It is rare that the script detects the wrong fence post, but
>     it can happen if the shortlogs are similar and the diffstats also
>     happen to match.
>
>     I don't suppose there's a set of layers that you can send me, or
>     point me at where I can do a few test runs ?
>
>     Outside of that, you can add the native sysroot to your path and
>     run kgit-s2q by hand, and see exactly why it is detecting the
>     wrong fence post patch (and hence skipping).
>
>     That script is looking at the patches, and then checking the branch
>     from the top down to see if a given patch is already on the branch.
>     Once it finds a patch that isn't on the branch, it declares it the
>     resume point and starts from there. So if you have patches with
>     similar shorlogs/diffstats, see about changing them to be unique
>     and the script shouldn't move through them, looking for the resume
>     point.
>
>     In Yocto 2.0+ I ended up dropping the autoresume logic, since with
>     the matching logic I hinted at above, it was indeed possible to
>     shoot through the middle and resume from the wrong point.
>
>     Bruce
>
>
>         Jate
>
>
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