[yocto] more BSP Guide pedantry involving customizing a recipe

Rifenbark, Scott M scott.m.rifenbark at intel.com
Mon Jan 5 15:42:57 PST 2015


Hi, 

I have updated this section in the "latest" version of the BSP Guide.  Thanks for the input.

Scott

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>Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 11:32 AM
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>Subject: [yocto] more BSP Guide pedantry involving customizing a recipe
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>
>  (you can tell i'm bored and want to get back up to speed on stuff
>...)
>
>  section 1.4 in BSP Guide, "Customizing a Recipe for a BSP", appears to discuss
>a new layer, "meta-xyz", then suggests the new "interfaces"
>file for this machine needs to go at the location:
>
>meta-xyz/recipes-core/init-ifupdown/files/xyz/interfaces
>                                          ^^^ ???
>
>  but the files/ subdirectory of "xyz/" would appear to be necessary (as we all
>know) only if this was a more general layer that represented several machines
>(say, meta-ti) for which we *needed* to distinguish between machines.
>
>  so while the above might be technically correct, it might mislead readers to
>think they *needed* to create a "xyz/" subdirectory for that overriding
>interfaces file.
>
>rday
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