[OE-core] what means the EXTRA_KERNEL_SRC_URI variable, if anything?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 21 Nov 2015, Bruce Ashfield wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 6:45 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> >   perusing a BSP package handed to me by someone else and in their
> > recipes-kernel/linux/ directory, there's a custom kernel .bbappend
> > file with the line:
> >
> >   EXTRA_KERNEL_SRC_URI += "file://kernelmods.scc"
> >
> > i am unfamiliar with that SRC_URI-related variable, and i don't see it
> > anywhere under the numerous layers i have checked out. is this some
> > legacy/deprecated variable? i don't know what to make of it.
>
> I'm guessing that BSP was created/packaged by Wind River :) That
> variable shows up in the linux-windriver kernel recipe, which is
> based on linux-yocto.
>
> It was simply a way to have a variable that could be used, without
> requiring direct manipulation of the SRC_URI .. since if a direct
> assignment had bee done to SRC_URI "good things" got clobbered, and
> "bad things" happened.
>
> I'd suggest ignoring it (except perhaps in the context of what you
> are using), since it is specific to that kernel, and something that
> will go away over time.
>
> oh .. and if the BSP wasn't a Wind River one .. I have no idea ;)

  that is, of course, precisely where it came from -- thanks for
clearing that up.

rday

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