[OE-core] [PATCH 4/8] kernel-devsrc: remove python2 dependency

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 2:32 AM Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 06:06:04PM -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 5:58 PM Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 04:11:43PM -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> > > >...
> > > > There's zero risk to these, and no reason to sit on them.
> > >
> > > What range of LTS kernels is covered by the "zero risk"?
> >
> > It has nothing to do with LTS kernels.
>
> virtual/kernel is special since real products have this provided by
> a BSP layer instead of using the kernels for the reference platforms
> that ship with Yocto.

I'm quite aware of what virtual/kernel is, and how it is used.

>
> How do your changes interact with a BSP layer that provides
> the upstream maintained LTS kernel 4.4?

As mentioned in other parts of the threads, we test against the
reference kernel's in master. Other versions can either bbappend, or
send patches. That's unfortunately how it has to be.

Cheers,

Bruce

>
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Bruce
>
> cu
> Adrian
>
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