[yocto] kernel manual: confusing coverage of FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

I updated and published the change to the 1.8 version.  I took Joe's suggestion. 

Thanks, 
Scott

>-----Original Message-----
>From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
>bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Joe MacDonald
>Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 5:44 AM
>To: Robert P. J. Day
>Cc: Yocto discussion list
>Subject: Re: [yocto] kernel manual: confusing coverage of
>FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend
>
>[[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.
>
>-J.
>
>>
>> rday
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