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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 3 Mar 2015, Bruce Ashfield wrote:

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> This format:  KERNEL_FEATURES="features/netfilter"
>
> Is the historical remnant. The tools can convert that to
> features/netfilter/netfiler.scc internally. It was a shortcut to
> make the features more human readable when they followed that
> defined form "<dirname>/<dirname>.scc"
>
> >
> >    as it stands now, it would *appear* that the statement:
> >
> >    KERNEL_FEATURES += "features/netfilter.scc"
> >
> > is simply wrong and can't possibly work, correct?
>
> That one is wrong, but the tools can also do a basename before
> running the test, which converts it to that other format, and
> then it can be expanded to find the feature description.
>
> Both are non-obvious, and error prone .. hence why they are not
> used anymore.
>
> So the answer is that the docs should be updated to purge the
> old references.

  thank you, that was the "A" answer.

rday

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