[OE-core] [PATCH] linux-yocto-dev: bump to 5.3-rcX

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 12:31 PM Bruce Ashfield
<bruce.ashfield at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 12:25 PM Randy MacLeod
> <randy.macleod at windriver.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 8/1/19 10:33 PM, bruce.ashfield at gmail.com wrote:
> > > From: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at gmail.com>
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >   meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb | 2 +-
> > >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb
> >
> >
> > > index 8c83620d39..96117ccf3f 100644
> > > --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb
> > > +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb
> > > @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ SRC_URI = "git://git.yoctoproject.org/linux-yocto-dev.git;branch=${KBRANCH};name
> > >   SRCREV_machine ?= '${@oe.utils.conditional("PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel", "linux-yocto-dev", "${AUTOREV}", "29594404d7fe73cd80eaa4ee8c43dcc53970c60e", d)}'
> > >   SRCREV_meta ?= '${@oe.utils.conditional("PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel", "linux-yocto-dev", "${AUTOREV}", "29594404d7fe73cd80eaa4ee8c43dcc53970c60e", d)}'
> > >
> > > -LINUX_VERSION ?= "5.2-rc+"
> > > +LINUX_VERSION ?= "5.3-rc+"
> > >   LINUX_VERSION_EXTENSION ?= "-yoctodev-${LINUX_KERNEL_TYPE}"
> > >   PV = "${LINUX_VERSION}+git${SRCPV}"
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Should this recipe be dropped from releas branches such as
> > warrior and zeus?
>
> I wouldn't bother, since it has never caused any issues in the past.
> If someone wants to worth with a newer kernel on an older branch, it
> provides a mechanism to do so. We get patches from time to time as
> people do try and use newer kernels on those branches, so it isn't
> uncommon.

That being said, if someone wants to delete it on the release branches
(or suggest another mechanism to inhibit it on non-master), I wouldn't
object either

Bruce

>
> Bruce
>
> >
> > Doing so would ensure that users understand that the -dev kernel is
> > really only for development on the master branch.
> >
> > --
> > # Randy MacLeod
> > # Wind River Linux
>
>
>
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