[yocto] kernel: "devtool modify -x" issue

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Steve,

FYI the backports just got merged over the weekend.

Cheers,
Paul

On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 09:53:08 Paul Eggleton wrote:
> I hope we are talking a week or less, but I'm not able to give you a
> definitive answer - it depends on patch review and how busy we are dealing
> with issues on the master branch among other things.
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 13:49:40 Steve Rae wrote:
> > thanks much...
> > I am very new to this: does "not long though" mean 2-3 days or 2-3 weeks
> > or
> > ???
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Paul Eggleton
> > 
> > <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Steve,
> > > 
> > > I've just sent out the patches; beyond that it's a matter of the stable
> > > branch testing and integration process. I hope not long though.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Paul
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 11:51:08 Steve Rae wrote:
> > >> Paul -- please ETA for getting this into the "jethro" branch.
> > >> Thanks, Steve
> > >> 
> > >> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Steve Rae <steve.rae at broadcom.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > >> > OK - this seems to build successfully - Thanks!
> > >> > 
> > >> >>> although I still do see the line:
> > >> >      Cloning into '/tmp/devtool6ZA4IK/workdir/source'...
> > >> > 
> > >> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 7:07 PM, Paul Eggleton
> > >> > 
> > >> > <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > >> >> On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 07:55:25 Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > >> >>> On Wed, 09 Mar 2016 10:12:30 Steve Rae wrote:
> > >> >>> > ( using jethro )
> > >> >>> > 
> > >> >>> > I have a 'linux-yocto-custom' layer which builds successfully;
> > >> >>> > then
> > >> >>> > I
> > > 
> > > run:
> > >> >>> >     devtool modify -x linux-yocto-custom ../../poky-dev/kernel
> > >> >>> > >> 
> > >> >>> > >> I see a line:
> > >> >>> >   Cloning into '/tmp/devtoolfgiLXr/workdir/source'...
> > >> >>> > 
> > >> >>> > Then I run:
> > >> >>> >     devtool build linux-yocto-custom
> > >> >>> > >> 
> > >> >>> > >> it reports the following:
> > >> >>> > Log data follows:
> > >> >>> > | DEBUG: Executing shell function do_kernel_configme
> > >> >>> > | NOTE: kernel configme
> > >> >>> > | [INFO] Configuring target/machine combo: "standard/bcmjava"
> > >> >>> > | [ERROR] frag
> > >> >>> > 
> > >> >>> > /tmp/devtoolfgiLXr/workdir/source/.meta/cfg/scratch/obj/tmp/devto
> > >> >>> > ol
> > >> >>> > fgi
> > >> >>> > LXr/
> > >> >>> > wo rkdir/defconfig does not exist
> > >> >>> > 
> > >> >>> > | [ERROR] No configuration fragments found, this typically is a
> > >> >>> > 
> > >> >>> > misconfigured BSP.
> > >> >>> > 
> > >> >>> > |         Check that fragments (or defconfigs) are referenced by
> > >> >>> > |         the
> > >> >>> > |         board
> > >> >>> > 
> > >> >>> > description.
> > >> >>> > 
> > >> >>> > | config of "standard/bcmjava" failed
> > >> >>> > | WARNING: exit code 1 from a shell command.
> > >> >>> > 
> > >> >>> > which is true, because "devtool modify -x" deletes the temp
> > >> >>> > directory
> > >> >>> > ("/tmp/devtoolfgiLXr") that it used to create this specified
> > >> >>> > workspace....
> > >> >>> 
> > >> >>> Hmm, it looks like the temporary path is leaking in somewhere. Is
> > >> >>> there
> > >> >>> an
> > >> >>> easy way I can reproduce this here so I can debug it?
> > >> >> 
> > >> >> Actually I just realised, this task ought not to be running at all -
> > >> >> in
> > >> >> master we've disabled it under these circumsances. There's also one
> > >> >> other fix on master that you'd benefit from in jethro - I've put
> > >> >> them
> > >> >> both on this>>
> > >> >> 
> > >> >> contrib branch:
> > >> >>   http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=paul
> > >> >>   e/
> > >> >>   jet
> > >> >>   hro-fixes4>>
> > >> >> 
> > >> >> If you could let me know how it works for you that would be great;
> > >> >> I'll
> > >> >> send it out soon.
> > >> >> 
> > >> >> Cheers,
> > >> >> Paul
> > >> >> 
> > >> >> --
> > >> >> 
> > >> >> Paul Eggleton
> > >> >> Intel Open Source Technology Centre
> > > 
> > > --
> > > 
> > > Paul Eggleton
> > > Intel Open Source Technology Centre

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre