[yocto] [PATCH] Documentation: Clarify a couple minor things in kernel manual, ch 2.

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

Applied... thanks Robert.

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>From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
>bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Robert P. J. Day
>Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 3:13 AM
>To: Yocto discussion list
>Subject: [yocto] [PATCH] Documentation: Clarify a couple minor things in
>kernel manual, ch 2.
>
>Replace "files" with "${PN}" and reword discussion of defconfig file.
>
>Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
>
>---
>
>diff --git a/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-common.xml
>b/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-common.xml
>index 56fa17d..7840c0e 100644
>--- a/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-common.xml
>+++ b/documentation/kernel-dev/kernel-dev-common.xml
>@@ -156,23 +156,25 @@
>             <title>Changing the Configuration</title>
>
>             <para>
>-                You can make wholesale or incremental changes to the Linux
>-                kernel <filename>.config</filename> file by including a
>-                <filename>defconfig</filename> and by specifying
>+                You can make wholesale or incremental changes to the final
>+                <filename>.config</filename> file used for the eventual
>+                Linux kernel configuration by including a
>+                <filename>defconfig</filename> file and by specifying
>                 configuration fragments in the
>-                <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-
>SRC_URI'><filename>SRC_URI</filename></ulink>.
>+                <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-
>SRC_URI'><filename>SRC_URI</filename></ulink>
>+                to be applied to that file.
>             </para>
>
>             <para>
>-                If you have a final Linux kernel <filename>.config</filename>
>-                file you want to use, copy it to a directory named
>-                <filename>files</filename>, which must be in
>-                your layer's <filename>recipes-kernel/linux</filename>
>-                directory, and name the file "defconfig".
>-                Then, add the following lines to your linux-yocto
>+                If you have a complete, working Linux kernel
><filename>.config</filename>
>+                file you want to use for the configuration, as before, copy that file
>+                to the appropriate <filename>${PN}</filename> directory in your
>+                layer's <filename>recipes-kernel/linux</filename> directory,
>+                and rename the copied file to "defconfig".
>+                Then, add the following lines to the linux-yocto
>                 <filename>.bbappend</filename> file in your layer:
>                 <literallayout class='monospaced'>
>-     FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
>+     FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
>      SRC_URI += "file://defconfig"
>                 </literallayout>
>                 The <filename>SRC_URI</filename> tells the build system how to
>@@ -181,7 +183,7 @@
>                 extends the
>                 <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-
>FILESPATH'><filename>FILESPATH</filename></ulink>
>                 variable (search directories) to include the
>-                <filename>files</filename> directory you created for the
>+                <filename>${PN}</filename> directory you created to
>+ hold the
>                 configuration changes.
>             </para>
>
>
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