[OE-core] Patch file search order in DORA (1.5)

Janis Coders janis.coders at gmail.com
Fri Nov 1 13:57:13 UTC 2013


Hi, I am working on Freescale's BSP with my custom layer which overrides 
(appends) the Linux kernel's recipe.
In version 1.4 my custom recipe's defconfig had priority over the 
'original' layer's defconfig, but in 1.5 the priority has
changed. After some debugging I found out that seems like order of patch 
file searching has changed in version 1.5.

Order in 1.4 (example):
DEBUG: Searching for defconfig in paths:
/home/chocis/projects/balticembedded-bsp/sources/meta-balticembedded/recipes-balticembedded/linux/linux-imx/arm
/home/chocis/projects/balticembedded-bsp/sources/meta-balticembedded/recipes-balticembedded/linux/linux-imx/armv7a
/home/chocis/projects/balticembedded-bsp/sources/meta-balticembedded/recipes-balticembedded/linux/linux-imx/mx5
/home/chocis/projects/balticembedded-bsp/sources/meta-balticembedded/recipes-balticembedded/linux/linux-imx/mx53
/home/chocis/projects/balticembedded-bsp/sources/meta-balticembedded/recipes-balticembedded/linux/linux-imx/imx53be
/home/chocis/projects/balticembedded-bsp/sources/meta-balticembedded/recipes-balticembedded/linux/linux-imx/poky
/home/chocis/projects/balticembedded-bsp/sources/meta-balticembedded/recipes-balticembedded/linux/linux-imx/
/home/chocis/projects/balticembedded-bsp/sources/meta-fsl-arm/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-imx-2.6.35.3/arm
/home/chocis/projects/balticembedded-bsp/sources/meta-fsl-arm/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-imx-2.6.35.3/armv7a
/home/chocis/projects/balticembedded-bsp/sources/meta-fsl-arm/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-imx-2.6.35.3/mx5 

     ......
Order in 1.5 (example):
/home/chocis/projects/testdorafreescale/sources/meta-balticembedded/recipes-balticembedded/linux/linux-imx/poky
/home/chocis/projects/testdorafreescale/sources/meta-fsl-arm-extra/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-imx-2.6.35.3/poky
/home/chocis/projects/testdorafreescale/sources/meta-fsl-arm/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-imx-2.6.35.3/poky
/home/chocis/projects/testdorafreescale/sources/meta-fsl-arm/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-imx/poky
/home/chocis/projects/testdorafreescale/sources/meta-fsl-arm/recipes-kernel/linux/files/poky
/home/chocis/projects/testdorafreescale/sources/meta-balticembedded/recipes-balticembedded/linux/linux-imx/imx53be
/home/chocis/projects/testdorafreescale/sources/meta-fsl-arm-extra/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-imx-2.6.35.3/imx53be
/home/chocis/projects/testdorafreescale/sources/meta-fsl-arm/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-imx-2.6.35.3/imx53be
/home/chocis/projects/testdorafreescale/sources/meta-fsl-arm/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-imx/imx53be
/home/chocis/projects/testdorafreescale/sources/meta-fsl-arm/recipes-kernel/linux/files/imx53be
     .........

Was this intended and specially changed in version 1.5? Because now I 
have to move my defconfig one directory deeper
to get the priority.




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