[yocto] 2.2 release note material

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 2016-10-19 10:25 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been gathering material for the 2.2 release notes, here is what I have at
> the moment. Things missing:
>
> * Any new features/enhancements for the kernel tools - Bruce, is there
> anything worth noting?

It is probably worth mentioning a few things on that front, I'll provide
some raw bullets points here .. and they can be wordsmithed as needed:

  - kernel tools were streamlined, with patching/configuration overhead
    reduced or eliminated in most cases.
  - kernel configuration audit was improved and runs as a standalone tool
  - kernel configuration audit provides symbol resolution and dependency
    information to allow troubleshooting of missing/incorrect/invalid 
symbols
  - kernel tools use upstream utilities directly, without local patches or
    wrappers.

Bruce

>
> * Known issues that are worth calling out
>
> Note that I haven't included all of the bugfixes in this release since we
> haven't been recently and there are a lot of them. I do have a list of them if
> we want to include them but not only is it very long, it's not guaranteed to
> be devoid of fixes for regressions within the release and I also haven't
> tweaked any of the items to be more understandable out of context as I have
> with the features/enhancements.
>
> Let me know if I've missed or misrepresented anything.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>