[OE-core] [PATCH] lttng-modules: Add git based recipe

[He Zhe]

On 6/12/19 6:27 PM, richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-06-12 at 18:21 +0800, He Zhe wrote:
>> On 6/12/19 5:57 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2019-06-12 at 17:15 +0800, zhe.he at windriver.com wrote:
>>>> From: He Zhe <zhe.he at windriver.com>
>>>>
>>>> This is based on meta/recipes-kernel/lttng/lttng-
>>>> modules_2.10.9.bb and is for
>>>> those who want to build lttng-modules with bleeding edge kernel,
>>>> to avoid
>>>> regularly backporting patches from upstream.
>>>>
>>>> Note that PREFERRED_VERSION needs to be set to select this recipe
>>>> instead of the
>>>> tar ball one.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: He Zhe <zhe.he at windriver.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  meta/recipes-kernel/lttng/lttng-modules_git.bb | 34
>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>  1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
>>>>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-kernel/lttng/lttng-
>>>> modules_git.bb
>>> Do we really want/need to duplicate the whole recipe?
>> Do you like one .inc plus two .bb s? Then I'll send v2 later.
> Yes, or just require the other .bb file and override the pieces needed.
> Not quite sure which would look best right now.
>
> Ultimately I'd like to have something like Ross' patch:
>
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=ross/gitup
>
> and use that for cases like this. Requiring the .bb and then tweaking
> may allow migration to something like this more easily.

It's been renamed with devupstream. I'll send v3.

Thanks,
Zhe

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>