[yocto] any point in a single machine recipe using a machine-specific file?

[Tomas Frydrych]

On 19/04/13 15:02, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 19 April 2013 14:49, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>>   but in the case of the rpi, is there any value in putting the files
>> under a machine-named subdirectory? of course it won't hurt, but is
>> there any point to it?
> 
> You could argue the clarity that it will bring if another machine is
> added to the BSP - the maintainer will be forced to decide if it's
> common across all machines that the BSP will service, or truly is
> specific to a particular machine.

No, no, no, this has nothing to do with clarity, it's the only way in
which it can be done without breaking other machines. As Martin said,
multiple BSP layers often are included at the same time, and if a config
file pulled in by a BSP bbappend is not made machine specific (which is
what the machine specific directory means), it will be installed for any
machine that does not come with a higher priority bbappend that also
overrides this file.

As an additional point, the 'interfaces' file should not be included in
a netbase bbappend, it's not part of the netbase base package ... I
opened a bug against meta-yocto-bsp for this, but seems this is more
wide spread.

Tomas

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