[yocto] Kernel configuration

[Chris Tapp]

Hi Paul,

On 19 Jan 2015, at 14:37, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 03 January 2015 00:57:50 Chris Tapp wrote:
>> If I change my bbappend to use lines of the form:
>> 
>>  SRC_URI_valleyisland-64 += " file://enable-R8169.cfg"
> 
> Note that this probably doesn't do what you think it does - it'll be _setting_ 
> the value to "  file://enable-R8169.cfg" rather than appending to the existing 
> value when MACHINE is "valleyisland-64".

I thought I had this sorted as it was doing _what_ I wanted ;-)

> Overrides and += don't really work 
> together because they operate at different times - the += happens immediately 
> and then later the override is applied. The correct way to do a conditional 
> append with an override is to use _append, e.g.:
> 
>  SRC_URI_append_valleyisland-64 = " file://enable-R8169.cfg"

Thanks for the heads-up - I'll go and update my file and add a comment so I remember next time round :-)

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Chris Tapp
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