[meta-intel] [PATCH 1/8] chiefriver: update v3.8 kernel repo branch commits

[Kamble, Nitin A]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zanussi, Tom
> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 8:43 AM
> To: Kamble, Nitin A
> Cc: Hart, Darren; meta-intel at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] chiefriver: update v3.8 kernel repo branch commits
> 
> On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 16:05 -0700, nitin.a.kamble at intel.com wrote:
> > From: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble at intel.com>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  .../recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.8.bbappend  |    4 ++--
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git
> > a/meta-chiefriver/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.8.bbappend
> > b/meta-chiefriver/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.8.bbappend
> > index cbbf5ff..d8f141f 100644
> > --- a/meta-chiefriver/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.8.bbappend
> > +++ b/meta-chiefriver/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_3.8.bbappend
> > @@ -6,5 +6,5 @@ KBRANCH_chiefriver = "standard/common-pc-
> 64/chiefriver"
> >
> >  KERNEL_FEATURES_append_chiefriver = " features/amt/mei"
> >
> > -SRCREV_machine_chiefriver =
> "b170394a475b96ecc92cbc9e4b002bed0a9f69c5"
> > -SRCREV_meta_chiefriver =
> "c2ed0f16fdec628242a682897d5d86df4547cf24"
> > +SRCREV_machine_chiefriver =
> "47aed0c17c1c55988198ad39f86ae88894c8e0a4"
> > +SRCREV_meta_chiefriver =
> "2a6d36e75ca0a121570a389d7bab76ec240cbfda"
> 
> Hi Nitin,
> 
> As part of pinning down the SRCREVS, you should also be specifying the
> LINUX_VERSION that they correspond to e.g. for this SRCREV:
> 
> LINUX_VERSION = "3.8.4"
> 
> Otherwise when the kernel recipe in poky/meta gets its LINUX_VERSION
> bumped, it will no longer match the version your SRCREV represents and
> you'll have a PV that uses a different version from your branch...
> 
> Tom
> 


I am adding these LINUX_VERSION lines to this commits now.  

Bruce,
  I see a possibility of improvement here. Is it possible to get the value of this var automatically from one of the kernel scripts?

Thanks,
Nitin