[yocto] yocto-bsp and kconf-check

[Jate Sujjavanich]

Some additional information: I noticed that the two CONFIG's are also defined in the fragment features/usb-net/usb-net.cfg. They are defined without using the non-hardware flag.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Ashfield [mailto:bruce.ashfield at windriver.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 3:45 PM
> To: Jate Sujjavanich
> Cc: 'yocto at yoctoproject.org'
> Subject: Re: [yocto] yocto-bsp and kconf-check
> 
> On 13-08-29 02:56 PM, Jate Sujjavanich wrote:
> >> Which kernel version ?
> >
> > This is linux-yocto-3.8 and the dylan-9.0.0 yocto.
> >
> >> It's not about them being common or not, it's about BSPs following a
> >> base policy versus having wild, per-board behaviour.
> >
> > I've cleaned up many items from the yocto-bsp generated
> > {{machine}}.cfg that are already added by KTYPE. I have two remaining
> > warnings for CONFIG_NET and CONFIG_NETDEVICES. Nested includes
> > eventually lead to the line
> >
> > force kconf non-hardware base.cfg
> >
> > which adds those config options. I thought the non-hardware would
> prevent the specified_non_hdw.cfg warning.
> 
> It should, unless there's a bug. Can you send me the steps to reproduce
> the config ? i.e. just your generated BSP layer in a .tgz should be
> enough.
> 
> Bruce
> 
> >
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Bruce Ashfield [mailto:bruce.ashfield at windriver.com]
> >> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 11:52 AM
> >> To: Jate Sujjavanich
> >> Cc: 'yocto at yoctoproject.org'
> >> Subject: Re: [yocto] yocto-bsp and kconf-check
> >>
> >> On 13-08-29 11:36 AM, Jate Sujjavanich wrote:
> >>> It appears that the yocto-bsp script generates a kernel
> >>> configuration
> >> that creates some warnings during kern-tools' kconf_check. The
> >> {{machine}}.cfg file has many non-hardware options, therefore the
> >> script warns.
> >>>
> >>> It seems like many of these should be in the standard kernel
> >> configuration. Is this correct, and does the yocto-bsp data need to
> >> be updated?
> >>
> >> Which kernel version ? But the answer is not necessarily, if a
> >> machine config is specifying something that hasn't been tagged
> >> "hardware" or that has a specified exception, you get a warning.
> >>
> >> It's not about them being common or not, it's about BSPs following a
> >> base policy versus having wild, per-board behaviour.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Bruce
> >>
> >>>
> >>> - Jate
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