[OE-core] Proposal: Creating meta-networking

[Joe MacDonald]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>
> Op 22 aug. 2012, om 21:22 heeft Chris Larson <kergoth at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
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>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Joe MacDonald <joe at deserted.net> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Christopher Larson <kergoth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Friday, June 15, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Joe MacDonald wrote:
>>>>
>>>> We've been talking about this on-and-off at Wind River for a while now,
>>>> but it now seems like a reasonable time to bring a proposal to the OE
>>>> community at large. We're thinking about creating a new layer to house
>>>> recipes, etc. for networking packages. I'll try to address what seem to
>>>> be the most immediate questions (certainly the ones we've been thinking
>>>> most about any time I've discussed this with anyone):
>>>>
>>>> Has their been any progress on the creation of this layer?
>>>
>>> Absolutely.  I think at least some of my mail on the subject have been
>>> bouncing from the lists but the short version is at the end of July
>>> the existing "meta-openembedded" pieces were done in my tree and there
>>> was a list of stuff that needed fixing in migrating the oe-classic
>>> bits into the new meta-networking layer (the list I laid out in my
>>> initial email).  I was on vacation between then and Monday, so
>>> nothing's happened since then but this week I'm back looking at the
>>> best way to handle these older recipes that are in need of love in
>>> order to work with the current meta-oe and we should be good to go.  I
>>> think what's likely to happen is there will be some of them updated
>>> right away and others will be integrated and updated soon after.
>>
>> Sounds good, thanks for the update. Is this repository-in-progress
>> available somewhere public yet?
>
> I'd very much welcome a patch creating an empty layer in meta-openembedded with just the README, layer.conf and COPYING.MIT

Easily done!  git-send-emailing it now.

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Joe MacDonald
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