[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] netbase: make netbase recipe MACHINE specific for all targets

[Darren Hart]

On 02/02/2012 10:59 AM, Joshua Lock wrote:
> On 02/02/12 10:54, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> 
>> Op 2 feb. 2012, om 19:51 heeft Joshua Lock het volgende
>> geschreven:
>> 
>>> Several BSP's are appending netbase to add MACHINE specific 
>>> networking functionality. Rather than BSP creators having to
>>> mark netbase MACHINE specific just default to PACKAGE_ARCH =
>>> "${MACHINE_ARCH}" in netbase.
>>> 
>>> This shouldn't be a huge hit as netbase just copies files
>>> around.
>> 
>> In the past OE would mark things machine specific if something in
>> SRC_URI was fetched using overrides. So it this patches fixed
>> netbase the 'old' mechanism is broken :(
> 
> This patch doesn't fix netbase, I just thought it would be simpler to
>  make this change than ensure all BSP's use appropriate OVERRIDEs in
>  their netbase bbappends - several I've seen don't.
> 

Is there a consensus on whether or not this can go in? I need either
this or the BSP layer fix for a new BSP. It seems to me that netbase is
overridden enough for machine specific things (like the interface file)
that Joshua's approach is the better fix.


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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel