[yocto] Change in behaviour

[Philip Balister]

On 11/20/2015 09:47 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> This commit:
>   commit 536b73f55f51fcea555338f9a557fe86c09d00cb
>   Author: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
>   Date:   Sun Oct 11 10:21:20 2015 +0100
>     bitbake: data_smart: Only support lowercase OVERRIDES
> breaks the use of capital letters, specifically in MACHINE names.
> I use this a lot, along with COMPATIBLE_MACHINE, to share recipes
> amongst similar machines.
> 
> The commit says it could be conditional.  How hard (and how)
> would it be to do that?
> 

A little background:

http://openembedded.org/wiki/OEDEM_2015#Metadata

Philip