[OE-core] [PATCH 2/5] kernel.bbclass: respect MACHINE_KERNEL_PR

[Koen Kooi]

Op 28 sep. 2011 om 09:54 heeft Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> het volgende geschreven:

> On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 18:40 -0500, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> 
>> Op 27 sep. 2011 om 08:52 heeft Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
>> 
>>> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
>>> <dbaryshkov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> MACHINE_KERNEL_PR was introduced long ago in org.oe.dev. It's present in
>>>> meta-oe kernel.bbclass. Several machines depend on this functionality.
>>> 
>>> I don' t have a big problem with this, since the change is obviously
>>> harmless if it
>>> doesn't need to be used. But similar to my comment on patch 3/5, is there any
>>> history/technical reasons we can capture here ?
>>> 
>>> I did a quick search to dig up a bit on this myself, but a summary
>>> would definitely
>>> help, since I see that this has a long and sometimes twisting history. Is it as
>>> simple as ?
>>> 
>>> "A machine.conf or local.conf can increase MACHINE_KERNEL_PR to force
>>> rebuilds for kernel and external modules"
>> 
>> It is that simple :) 
> 
> I have reservations about this patch given we soon plan to stop needing
> to bump PR values. This patch is actually a perfect example of how brain
> dead the current manual PR bumping is and why we need something better.
> I don't want half the code in the repo to be a mass of PR values which
> need to be incremented manually under weird and wonderful circumstances
> which is where the direction things are currently going...
> 
> I'd like to hold off on this one.

This patch improves the current situation and I don't foresee the autoPR code working soon


> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
> 
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