[OE-core] is "LINUX_VERSION" actually needed for a kernel checkout?

[Khem Raj]

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On 7/14/2012 2:26 PM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Robert P. J. Day
> <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> pawing my way through the kernel recipe file and checkout code so
>> i understand it once and for all, and i'm curious about the
>> setting of:
>> 
>> LINUX_VERSION ?= "3.4.4"
>> 
>> in linux-yocto_3.4.bb.
>> 
>> for my example, i'm testing with straight oe-core and building
>> for qemuarm, so i can see the following relevant lines from the
>> kernel recipe file that will affect my kernel checkout:
>> 
>> KBRANCH_qemuarm  = "standard/arm-versatile-926ejs" 
>> SRCREV_machine_qemuarm ?=
>> "9aca8fec49787efbe44d0f137f31ee59edd94c49" SRCREV_meta ?=
>> "a8cf77018b0faa0d29f1483ff4e5a2034dc8edd5"
>> 
>> SRC_URI = 
>> "git://git.yoctoproject.org/linux-yocto-3.4.git;protocol=git;nocheckout=1;branch=${KBRANCH},meta;name=machine,meta"
>>
>>
>> 
LINUX_VERSION ?= "3.4.4"
>> 
>> as i read the docs (and i could be totally off-base), the
>> KBRANCH variable identifies the branch i want for my checkout,
>> while the SRCREV_machine variable identifies the particular
>> commit on that branch that i want (typically, it's a merge of
>> standard/base into that branch).  and of course, SRCREV_meta is
>> the state of the meta branch i want for further configuration.
>> 
>> but at no time did i need to know the tagged kernel version that
>> my machine branch was based on, did i?  so for the purposes of
>> what happened above, i didn't *require* the value of
>> LINUX_VERSION, did i?
>> 
>> i can see that it will be handy in, say, creating meaningful 
>> directory names for building.  but beyond that, what else is it
>> used for?  (i haven't got to the meta/ directory processing yet,
>> so i have no idea whether it's suddenly necessary there.)
> 
> The kernel itself doesn't care .. but the rest of the system does, 
> since that is used for setting PV.
> 

I think we only have 1 recipe per release e.g. 3.2, 3.4 and so on so
adding an additional minor is confusing there may be it can be avoided
and when we say 3.4 it means 3.4 release branch of kernel.

unless we plan to have it selectable for users to use 3.4.1 and 3.4.2
it probably loses the significance

> 


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