[yocto] linux-yocto 3.0.1 upgrade broke PREFERRED_VERSION setting in BSPs

[Tom Zanussi]

On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 21:11 -0700, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On 11-08-17 11:23 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
> > We have just rolled out PREFERRED_VERSION="3.0+git%", and these now fail
> > with messages like:
> >
> > NOTE: preferred version 3.0+git% of linux-yocto not available (for item
> > virtual/kernel)
> >
> > I could patch everything really quick to use 3.0.1+git%... but 3.0.2 was
> > just released and I'd have to do it again tomorrow. For 2.6.37, the
> > LINUX_VERSION remained the same across point releases. I recommend we do
> > the same for 3.0. I really don't want to have to go through and update
> > all the PREFERRED_VERSIONs in addition to all the SRCREVs everytime a
> > point release comes out.
> 
> I made this change due to some other explicit requests about the
> kernel version not being obvious. I don't really see this as a big
> deal, I'm already updating SRCREVs, we are already updating the
> SRCREVs in the meta-* layers .. so I fail to see how this is much
> more load.
> 

Maybe the extra load isn't a big deal, but at least the SRCREVs can
change most of the time without breaking everything like this does.

> I'd argue that 2.6.37 was a mistake, and you shouldn't even need
> to set the preferred version anymore once the latest kernel works
> for your machines. It will always be selected and you shouldn't
> need to force it. We only needed this during the transition phase,
> and I'm about to change the default in meta-yocto .. so you definitely
> won't need it.
> 

It would be great not to have to set the preferred version at all - how
do I get that to work?

Tom

> Cheers,
> 
> Bruce
> 
> >
>