[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] linux-yocto: add patch in existing SRC_URI value rather than using _append

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 08:05:31 Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 4:47 AM, Paul Eggleton <
> 
> paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > Of course SRC_URI_append works just fine for building here, but it does
> > introduce two problems:
> > 
> > 1) It's not really very tidy and you could look at the SRC_URI value and
> > 
> >    miss the fact that there's a patch appended at the end.
> > 
> > 2) devtool update-recipe will end up duplicating the appended item
> > 
> >    (covered under [YOCTO #9360]).
> > 
> > Given the above it seems reasonable to squash the appended value into
> > the main SRC_URI value.
> 
> This is only temporary, which is why it's an _append, and I'm about to get
> rid of the need for this patch completely
> since upstream has finally produced a 7 patch series to fix the regression.
> 
> So I'd rather not churn this, and leave it as-is for another few days.

OK, that's fine - as long as we don't release with this in it I'll be happy.

Thanks,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre