[yocto] SRCREV spec not working for kernel git recipes

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>        I found out that if I specify SRCREV_pn-${PN}, it works and picks up the correct commit id, as follows:
>
> SRCREV_pn-${PN} = "a5556fb251253ccb674bd22d9703c37f6f8807a8"
>
> However, if you simply specifying SRCREV =  "a5556fb251253ccb674bd22d9703c37f6f8807a8", it has no effect and it always picks up the latest commit from the git repository.
>
> It would be great if someone could please explain why this is so, because I search through the Yocto documentation and it isn't mentioned anywhere. The OE classic way of doing things, it used to pick up the correct commit by just specifying SRCREV. Now I find that you have to specify SRCREV_pn-${PN} to get it to work.
>
> Is this documented somewhere?

?
can you port bitbake -e virtual/kernel output with and without change
somewhere ?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Elvis Dowson
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