[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm-extra][PATCH] nitrogen6x.conf: Allow kernel provider override

[Otavio Salvador]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> On 2013-10-30 08:33, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2013-10-30 08:10, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This change lets the user override the choice of kernel in local.conf
>>>>> Without it, there is no way to build any kernel, e.g. linux-imx, other
>>>>> than the linux-boundary version.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I really dislike this.
>>>>
>>>> I understand your need, and it is a valid one, but it'd be better you
>>>> to make a new machine (which includes this one) and override it there.
>>>
>>>
>>> Even if I did that (and I have), if I include this config file, I can
>>> never override this setting in a soft (user settable) way.
>>
>>
>> Then you can force it in your machine.
>>
>>>> If we start allow all kind of override in machine configuration it
>>>> loses its meaning and complicates the support.
>>>>
>>>> Eric? comments?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Eric has already approved this change.
>>
>>
>> This is not up to me but I'd like to discuss it a little bit further
>> before merging it...
>>
>> My main concern about this is the support. As I said it is a valid
>> use-case but /most/ people will end with a .conf for the custom
>> settings in the end with their internal fork or so. Do it in
>> local.conf or environment is not advised as it is easy to be forgotten
>> or do wrong so for every product it is better to have a .conf in case
>> it needs specific kernel/u-boot patches.
>>
>
> A reasonable concern.  I do note that having this be soft in <MACHINE>.conf
> seems to be common practice in the rest of the Yocto world.

Ok; you guys won :-)

I applied it to dora and master (I manually applied it as it has not
applied cleanly).

Eric, please, if you have time do the same change in nitrogen6x-lite
so it is kept in sync.

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