[OE-core] [RFC][PATCH 1/6]qemuarm.conf: provide a common qemuarm machine configuration

[Martin Jansa]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 09:51:54AM +0800, Bian Naimeng wrote:
> 
> said the following on 2013-7-29 23:36:, Phil Blundell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 12:02 +0800, Bian Naimeng wrote:
> >> qemux86.conf: provide a common qemux86 machine configuration, 
> >> so developer/distributor can customize their specific one.
> >>
> >> Although, we can modify the meta/conf/machine/qemux86.conf to customize our 
> >> configuration, but it's uncomfortable for developer/distributor maintaining
> >> their branch.
> >> After applying this patch, developer can tell poky using their machine
> >> configuration by prepending their layer to BBPATH(Of course,
> >> the bblayers.conf should be adapted to it).
> > 
> > I don't really understand the purpose of this patch.  Surely there is
> > nothing to stop you from shipping an overlay qemux86.conf in some other
> > layer today, right?  What exactly is the advantage of this extra
> > indirection through an .inc file?
> > 
> 
> What my purpose is that make it easy to implement the below case.
>  1. I want inherit all the configuration item of qemux86.conf.
>  2. I want add some new items to my qemux86.conf.
>  3. If there're changes to qemux86.conf, i want merge them to my qemux86.conf
> 
> Yes, we can implement this case today.
>  1. Copy the meta/conf/machine/qemux86.conf to my layer.
>  2. Add new items to my qemux86.conf
>  3. Rewrite my qemux86.conf to merge community changes.
> 
> However, if applying these patches, it becomes easy.
>  1. add "require conf/machine/include/qemux86.inc" to my qemux86.conf
>  2. add new items to my qemux86.conf
>  3. modify qemux86.inc to update qemux86 configration at community, 
>     so all community changes will be merged to my qemux86.conf automatically
>     when merging the mainline.

Without patches
1. add require ${COREBASE}/meta/conf/machine/qemux86.conf at the
beginning of your qemux86.conf copy
2. add new items

> 
> > Also, as a side note, your patches 1/6, 2/6 and 6/6 all said
> > "qemuarm.conf" in the subject lines but only the last of them actually
> > contained changes to qemuarm.conf.
> 
> Sorry for my mistake. The correct one is following.
> 1/6: qemux86.conf.
> 2/6: qemux86-64.conf
> 
> > 
> > Also also, the patches in this form are quite hard to follow.  Did you
> > use "git format-patch -M" when creating them?
> 
> Yes, I used "git format-patch -M" to create them.
> I will check them by linux/scripts/checkpatch.pl next time.
> 
> Thanks
>  bian
> 
> > 
> > p.
> > 
> > 
> 
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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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