[yocto] kernel manual: confusing coverage of FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend

[Gary Thomas]

On 2015-02-25 06:44, Joe MacDonald wrote:
> [[yocto] kernel manual: confusing coverage of FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend] On 15.02.25 (Wed 03:54) Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>>
>>    minor quibble about kernel dev manual -- section 2.2.1, "creating
>> the append file", uses the example of:
>>
>>   FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
>>
>> while section 2.2.3 uses:
>>
>>   FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
>>
>> both sections kind of implying that that's the way to do it, without
>> making it clear that *either* way works as long as the variable
>> prepend matches up with the directory name.
>>
>>    both ways are correct, of course, but the wording is a bit
>> confusing.
>
> It's probably worth changing the latter reference to match the former.
> Both work but with any new recipes (at least in the layers I maintain)
> the preference is to use the former for clarity as well as faster
> lookups.

What makes one way faster than any other?

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