[yocto] preferred KERNEL_FEATURES format: netfilter or netfilter.scc?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Tue Mar 3 02:39:51 PST 2015


On Tue, 3 Mar 2015, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
>   kernel dev manual uses the KERNEL_FEATURES format of:
>
>      KERNEL_FEATURES += "features/netfilter.scc"
>
> while ref manual variable glossary uses
>
>      KERNEL_FEATURES="features/netfilter"
>
> is there a preference for the usage of the .scc suffix? (i'm assuming
> they're both valid, i didn't actually check that. maybe i should check
> that ...)

  hang on, i think there's an error in the docs ... if i check the
meta branch, i see that the actual structure for the netfilter feature
is "features/netfilter/netfilter.scc", so "features/netfilter.scc"
shouldn't even work, should it? historical remnant?

rday

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