[meta-intel] [PATCH 2/3] sys940x: linux-yocto_3.4: cleanup the SRC_URI

[Darren Hart]

On 01/22/2013 12:19 PM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On 13-01-22 03:02 PM, Kamble, Nitin A wrote:
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Hart, Darren
>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:00 PM
>>> To: Kamble, Nitin A
>>> Cc: meta-intel at yoctoproject.org; Zanussi, Tom
>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] sys940x: linux-yocto_3.4: cleanup the SRC_URI
>>>
>>> On 01/22/2013 11:55 AM, nitin.a.kamble at intel.com wrote:
>>>> From: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble at intel.com>
>>>>
>>>> As the commit to change kernel recipe SRC_URI to base on the
>>>> KSRC_linux_yocto_3_4_repo var did not go in the poky layer,
>>>
>>> Why not?
>>
>> Darren, you can look at the thread on the oecore ML for it.
>> Or Bruce would you like to explain?
> 
> The thread should do, but generally the approach that I took in
> meta-kernel-dev (and roughly what Nitin's approach was as well), isn't
> an example RP wants repeated. Something more generic that uses python
> to remap a SRC_URI based on a local setting is suggested, with a
> class that is inherited to implement the functionality.
> 
> The python approach is definitely more in line with oe-core/yocto and
> uses the flexibility of the system, with the realization that there's
> more code involved which may be less clear to a non oe veteran or
> python coder :)

The lesson here is that we do not commit things to meta-intel that
depend on unmerged changes to oe-core (or anywhere else for that matter).

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel