[OE-core] [PATCH] linux-libc-headers: updated to 3.4.3

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 09:03 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Marinescu, Bogdan A
>> <bogdan.a.marinescu at intel.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Why is recipe renamed
>> >
>> > Wasn't I supposed to do that when I upgraded the package from 3.4 to 3.4.3 ?
>>
>> No one replied to my other question (or at least no one replied that I
>> noticed), about
>> why we even bothered to bump it to 3.4.3 ...
>>
>> I have the same elements in that question .. but from a different angle.
>
> I think Khem's question is a little vague and I'm not sure how I'd
> answer that.
>
> As for policy of updating the kernel headers against stable releases, it
> can't hurt and we needed to bump PV or PR anyway as Martin mentioned so
> that was the main reason I took the patch.
>
> I think there could be a perception issue if we don't update, on the
> other hand it could be considered unnecessary churn. So I think in
> future this will be on a case by case basis. If there was a header fix
> in the stable series (which is conceivable), we would want to take that
> for example.

This works for me, and was my main point. Updating it is one thing, but
we should consider before updating, since the "normal" rules don't always
apply to this particular package.

Thanks for the clarification,

Bruce

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
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