[meta-intel] Use of overrides in linux-yocto bbappends

[Paul Eggleton]

On Friday 11 April 2014 17:38:46 Chris Tapp wrote:
> On 11 Apr 2014, at 16:37, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
> wrote:
> > ...
> > I can throw together a patch to fix it, but we'll also need to make sure
> > new BSPs added in future use overrides as well. Any suggestions on how to
> > handle the latter?
> 
> Would a QA check help?

If you mean a QA check to detect use of the override, unfortunately no - 
although BitBake can collect history such that it would be possible for a QA 
check to tell whether an override were used or not (as seen when running 
bitbake -e), we don't turn that on during a normal build for performance 
reasons. We could do something to check if LINUX_VERSION had been set to match 
the actual kernel being built, but I'm sure there are situations where the two 
don't exactly match so that may not be practical either. 

I've thought about this kind of thing before though as a separate "lint" tool 
to run over a layer. There's an open enhancement bug with some of my thoughts 
including something to cover this kind of issue:

  https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5427

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre